Usually means: Cease functioning or living suddenly.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word drop dead:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. drop-dead: Merriam-Webster
  2. drop-dead, drop dead: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. drop-dead: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. drop-dead, drop-dead, drop dead, drop dead: Collins English Dictionary
  5. drop-dead, drop dead: Vocabulary.com
  6. Drop-Dead, drop-dead: Wordnik
  7. Drop dead, drop dead: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. drop-dead, drop dead: Wiktionary
  9. drop-dead: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. drop-dead: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. drop-dead, drop dead: Dictionary.com
  12. DROP DEAD, Drop Dead (Siege album), Drop Dead (album), Drop-dead, Drop dead: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. drop-dead, drop dead: Rhymezone
  14. drop-dead, drop dead: FreeDictionary.org
  15. drop-dead, drop dead: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. drop-dead, drop dead: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. drop dead: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. drop dead: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Drop dead, drop-dead, drop dead: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. drop dead: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. drop dead: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Drop dead: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

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Definitions from Wiktionary (drop dead)

▸ verb:  (intransitive) To die suddenly.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To be appalled or mortified.
▸ adverb:  Alternative form of drop-dead [(informal) Very impressively or spectacularly.]

Similar:
kick the bucket, buy the farm, pop off, choke, snuff it, croak, conk, die suddenly, die unexpectedly, stop dead, more...

Opposite:
revive, resuscitate, restore

Phrases:
drop dead date, drop dead gorgeous, drop dead fee, drop dead day, Drop Dead Fred, more...

Adjectives:
belly up, dead, gone, ago, napoo, departed, checkmated, shut up, stiff, waste, cash

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Similar:
kick the bucket, buy the farm, pop off, choke, snuff it, croak, conk, die suddenly, die unexpectedly, stop dead, more...

Opposite:
revive, resuscitate, restore

Phrases:
drop dead date, drop dead gorgeous, drop dead fee, drop dead day, Drop Dead Fred, Drop Dead Diva, Drop the Dead Donkey, Drop Dead Sexy, Drop Dead Darling, more...

Adjectives:
belly up, dead, gone, ago, napoo, departed, checkmated, shut up, stiff, waste, cash



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