Directly 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.
dead ahead
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The adverb has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
exactly ahead or in front
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Mentioned in
- forward (navigation)
- Boz Scaggs: Greatest Hits Live (2004 Music Film)
- ahead (Idiom)
- dead (Idiom)
- Here's the Low Down [Collectables] (2003 Album by Boz Scaggs)
- Grateful Dead: Dead Ahead (1980 Music Film)
- Middle Man (1980 Album by Boz Scaggs)
- Gimme the World (2007 Album by Nine Nine Nine)
- credit
- Leeway
- Dead Ahead [DVD] (1982 Album by Grateful Dead)
- Hits! (1980 Album by Boz Scaggs)
- Mighty Motown (1979 Album by Various Artists)
- Dead Reckoning
