Definition of Drop dead

1. Verb. Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life. "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"

Exact synonyms: Buy The Farm, Cash In One's Chips, Choke, Conk, Croak, Decease, Die, Exit, Expire, Give-up The Ghost, Go, Kick The Bucket, Pass, Pass Away, Perish, Pop Off, Snuff It
Specialized synonyms: Abort, Asphyxiate, Stifle, Suffocate, Buy It, Pip Out, Drown, Predecease, Famish, Starve, Fall, Succumb, Yield
Generic synonyms: Change State, Turn
Related verbs: Break, Break Down, Conk Out, Die, Fail, Give Out, Give Way, Go, Go Bad, Die
Derivative terms: Decease, Decedent, Death, Death, Death, Death, Death, Death, Exit, Expiration, Going, Passing
Antonyms: Be Born
Also: Die Down, Die Down, Die Off, Die Out

Definition of Drop dead

1. Verb. (intransitive) to die suddenly ¹

2. Interjection. an angry expletive ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Drop Dead

drop anchor
drop arch
drop away
drop back
drop backs
drop bear
drop bears
drop behind
drop biscuit
drop by
drop by the wayside
drop cap
drop ceiling
drop cloth
drop curtain
drop dead (current term)
drop down
drop earring
drop finger
drop forge
drop goal
drop grommet
drop hammer
drop hand
drop heart
drop in
drop in the bucket
drop in the ocean
drop ins
drop keel

Literary usage of Drop dead

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Medical Common Sense: Applied to the Causes, Prevention and Cure of Chronic by Edward Bliss Foote (1864)
"... stories are told of New York dairymen, who, it is said, keep their cows closely tied up in sheds and fed on still slops till they actually drop dead in ..."

2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1910)
"She explained this as a reaction to voices which suggested that she should drop dead. Once she referred to her behavior in Bellevue: "I was very violent and ..."

3. Reporting for the Newspapers by Charles Hemstreet (1901)
"I was a little afraid to go around with him; I thought he would drop dead. Did he drop dead ? Q, Yes. A. Where ? Qi In Houston Street. ..."

4. The Evangelistic Note by William James Dawson (1905)
"My friends,'' he added,'' don't like me to go out alone, because they are afraid I may drop dead, but if I drop dead here I shall be alive and happy up ..."

5. The Evangelistic Note by William James Dawson (1905)
"My friends,'' he added,'' don't like me to go out alone, because they are afraid I may drop dead, but if I drop dead here I shall be alive and happy up ..."

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