deadpan

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Etymology

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From dead +‎ pan (face).

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Adjective

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deadpan (comparative more deadpan, superlative most deadpan)

  1. Deliberately impassive or expressionless.
    a deadpan face or look
    deadpan behaviour or speech
  2. Having such a face or look.
    The comedian remained deadpan.

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Adverb

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deadpan (comparative more deadpan, superlative most deadpan)

  1. In a deadpan manner.
    • 2004, Steven Greenhut, Abuse of Power: How the Government Misuses Eminent Domain[1], page 46:
      A city-hired consultant from a firm called Urban Futures was booed repeatedly by the agitated homeowners as he talked deadpan, in bureaucratese, about his firm's "evidentiary record" pointing to blight in the neighborhood.

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Noun

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deadpan (uncountable)

  1. A style of comedic delivery in which something humorous is said or done while not exhibiting a change in emotion or facial expression.
    • 2007, Meredith Gran, Octopus Pie #71: Deadpan[2]:
      MAREK: But really the deadpan is key. You can essentially trick people into laughing at nothing.

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Verb

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deadpan (third-person singular simple present deadpans, present participle deadpanning, simple past and past participle deadpanned)

  1. To express (oneself) in an impassive or expressionless manner.
    • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 496:
      Kidd deadpanned it, stared glassily back at Maitland.

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