Unremitting heavy weight that does not move. / (nautical) The largest weight of cargo a ship is able to carry; i.e, the weight of a ship when fully loaded minus its weight when empty.

(of a shot in snooker or other cue sports) With just enough weight for a ball to drop into a pocket, or come to rest in a precisely determined position.

(informal) A practically guaranteed outcome.

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