dead v.
1. (US campus) of a student, to fail completely in one’s recitation.
 | Oration before H.L. of I.O. of O.F in (1856) 148: Be ready, in fine, to cut, to drink, to smoke, to dead. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | College Words (rev. edn) 148: dead. To be unable to recite; to be ignorant of the lesson; to declare oneself unprepared to recite. | |
| Century Dict. |
2. (US campus) of a teacher, to make a student botch the recitation.
| Harvardiana III 255: Have I been screwed, yea, deaded morn and eve. | |
| College Words (rev. edn) 148: dead [...] To cause one to fail in reciting. | |
| Student Life 64: He marched us all into an adjoining room [...] and ‘deaded’ three fourths of the entire division [DAE]. | |
| Harvard Crimson 18 June 🌐 KIND-HEARTED INSTRUCTOR (who has asked Mr. Phlunk all the simple questions he could without getting an answer, and who does n’t want to dead him utterly). | |
| in Harper’s Mag. LXIX 386/2: Was it Dr. Peabody, whose [...] inquiry ‘What is ethics?’ had deaded so many a promising [...] student? [DAE]. |
3. (US prison) to remove, to steal.
| Other Side of the Wall: Prisoner’s Dict. July 🌐 Dead: [...] (2) Deprive of something. ‘That officer deaded my rec.’ (NY). |
4. (UK black) to die.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Observer 10 Mar. 13: I pray to God that, if you are gonna take me, don’t let me dead in Hackney. |
5. to kill, to murder.
| Attack the Block [film script] 79: HI-HATZ I was gonna make you. His grin drops. HI-HATZ Now I’m gonna dead you. HI-HATZ COCKS the GUN. | |
| (con. 1972) What It Was 68: I ain’t tryin to dead myself [...] I’ll plead the Fifth, I have to. | |
| (ed.) ‘Drill Slang Glossary’ at Forensic Linguistic Databank 🌐 Deaded - killed. |
6. (UK black) in weak use of sense 5, to stop, to cancel.
| (ed.) ‘Drill Slang Glossary’ at Forensic Linguistic Databank 🌐 Deaded – stopped, cancelled. |