dead-pan
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- If a person's expression is dead-pan, they are impassive or expressionless on purpose.
Adverb
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- If something is done dead-pan, it is done in a dead-pan manner.
Verb
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- If you dead-pan, you express yourself in an impassive or expressionless manner.
- I dead-panned it while having to say a speech in front of a large crowd.