deadass
DED-as/ˈdɛdæs/
Noun pluraldeadasses
Pluraldeadasses
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- 2Completely serious. Used when you are not joking at all.
Are you deadass? You really won the tickets?
I'm deadass, I saw him at the mall yesterday.
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Origin
From "dead" plus "-ass," an ending that makes an adjective stronger. It seems to have started in New York in the late 1990s and 2000s.