Usually means: Caught with undeniable evidence; guilty.
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  1. dead to rights: Merriam-Webster
  2. dead to rights: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dead to rights: Wiktionary
  4. dead to rights: Dictionary.com
  5. Dead to Rights (Game Boy Advance), Dead to Rights (disambiguation), Dead to Rights (series), Dead to Rights: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. dead to rights: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dead to rights: Legal dictionary
  2. dead to rights: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dead to rights: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dead to rights: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dead to rights: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dead to rights: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. dead to rights: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (dead to rights)

adverb:  (US, idiomatic) With sufficient evidence to establish responsibility definitively.

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