present participle of fall asleep

simple past tense of fall asleep

(speech act, idiomatic) Used to attempt to make a serious point in a jocular conversation.

(idiomatic, intensifier, simile) Unceasingly; very; thoroughly; to a very high degree.

(informal, chiefly law) In the event that the thing being discussed comes to pass.

As much as is possible.

(idiomatic) By coincidence, incidentally

plural of is-a

A vague invocation of popular convention when introducing a phrase or expression, which may be accompanied by attribution to a source or locale in which the phrase or expression is used.

(obsolete) Dead.