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Dead-pan

adj, adv, noun, verb

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Adjective

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Alternative form of deadpan. alt-of, alternative
"He stared for a few seconds, then asked with a dead-pan expression, “And some chiange?”"

Adverb

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Alternative form of deadpan. alt-of, alternative
"There was his left-hand head talking and sort of yapping that silly laugh of his, dead-pan, while the right-hand head was all creased up with giggle lines."

Noun

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Alternative form of deadpan. alt-of, alternative
"They are the eerie half-human attendants at anything that is new on Broadway — the dead-pans of the Theatre Guild openings."

Verb

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Alternative form of deadpan. alt-of, alternative
""I've long admired men who have risen from humble beginnings," Mulholland says, and then dead-pans: "Dr. Laffer was educated at Yale.""

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