(trading, idiomatic) A temporary recovery in the price of a financial instrument which has fallen rapidly and is expected to fall further in the long run.

(finance, slang) Trading life assurance policies of terminally ill people, bought by a third party as an investment.

(informal) Very impressively or spectacularly.

(intransitive) To die suddenly. / (intransitive, figuratively) To be appalled or mortified.

Used angrily to express disgust, contempt, derision, etc., toward another person.

Alternative form of drop-dead

(pathology) The sudden and unexplained death of an infant aged one month to one year, normally while sleeping.

(dated, nautical) The period of work on board ship for which the seamen have been paid in advance (usually a month's wages), the end of this term being celebrated by parading a straw horse about the decks.

(obsolete, rare) Subject to death; mortal. / Causing death; lethal. / Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile. / Very accurate (of aiming with a bow, firearm, etc.).

(obsolete) Fatally, mortally. / In a way which suggests death. / Extremely, incredibly.