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dead ahead
Thesaurus| Adv. | 1. | dead ahead - exactly ahead or in front; "the laboratory is dead ahead" |
dead ahead
dead aheadVery close and directly in one's course; straight ahead. Watch out for that pothole dead ahead! You're almost there, the park is dead ahead.See also: ahead, deaddead aheadstraight ahead; directly ahead. Look out! There is a cow in the road dead ahead. The farmer said that the town we were looking for was dead ahead.See also: ahead, deaddead aheadDirectly or straight in front of one, as in There's the house, dead ahead. The use of dead in the sense of "straight" dates from the last quarter of the 1800s. See also: ahead, deaddead ahead
dead ahead[¦ded ə′hed] (navigation) In marine operations, a position directly ahead of the ship; a relative bearing of 000°. |