Usually means: Absolutely necessary or final deadline.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word drop-dead:

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

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

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. drop-dead, drop-dead: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Definitions from Wiktionary (drop-dead)

adverb:  (informal) Very impressively or spectacularly.
adverb:  (informal, not comparable, business, law) Absolutely final; being the deadline, especially in relation to a date set out in a contract upon which adverse consequences will flow if the contract has not been fulfilled.

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