Meaning

Very accurate in shooting or throwing..

Definitions by Sense

1. Very accurate in shooting or throwing.
2. (concerning a stare) Cold; unfriendly.
3. (nautical) A wooden disk having holes through which the lanyard is passed, used for tightening shrouds.
4. A very accurate marksman.
5. (uncommon) A penchant for noticing a particular thing, or a person who has such a penchant.

Example Sentences

Gross, only a 20-year-old junior, is a deadeye passer, a poised runner and a quick-thinking field general.

Help in that department should come from highly touted freshman Jason Kapono, a 6'7" deadeye shooter who made 211 threes in high school.

The old man was a natural sniper, a deadeye shooter even as a boy, and he served with my great uncle in the First World War.

The deadeye stare of the bassist was enough to make any normal person run.

Outlandish in its violence and its conceit, "The Brave One" would be an interesting addendum to Foster's career even without its biographical frisson, without the image of Erica holding a gun with a deadeye stare […]

He taught both my mother and me to shoot, taught my mother so well that she became a better shot than he was--a real deadeye.

He examined the cash balance daily, boasted he could pay off all debts in two hours, had a deadeye for fake figures in scanning a ledger, and personally audited the books each New Year's Day.

Thirty-four years later, she was a tough CEO who went after Jimmy's detractors with a deadeye for the jugular.

Word Forms

• dead-eye
• deadeyes

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