In a college or university, the week immediately preceding finals week.

(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

(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.

(baseball) A four-seam fastball

A rarity;

(idiomatic) Someone or something that very closely resembles another; someone or something easily mistaken for another.

(baseball, slang) A ball which falls over the infielders’ heads for a hit, as if it were a bird shot by a hunter. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dead, bird.