Definition of Dead on target

1. Adjective. Accurately placed or thrown. "He was dead on target"

Exact synonyms: True
Similar to: Accurate
Derivative terms: Trueness

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dead On Target

dead man's switch
dead man's switches
dead man walking
dead march
dead marine
dead meat
dead media
dead men
dead men tell no tales
dead metaphor
dead nerve
dead nettle
dead of night
dead on
dead on arrival
dead on target (current term)
dead or alive
dead person
dead president
dead presidents
dead pulp
dead reckoning
dead ringer
dead ringers
dead room
dead rubber
dead run
dead set
dead set(p)
dead set against

Literary usage of Dead on target

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Vostok Station: Point of Impact by Plowright, Kerry (2005)
"The combined shots from the two laser cannons were dead on target and fried the electronics on the incoming missiles. The missiles were destroyed without ..."

2. Republicby Charles Edward Sheehan-miles by Charles Edward Sheehan-miles (2007)
"... "Bleak and disturbing... dead-on-target ...This first novel is a work of pure psychological conflict. Gone are the game-like "smart" bomb videos, ..."

3. Prayer at Rumayla: A Novel of the Gulf Warby Charles Sheehan-Miles by Charles Sheehan-Miles (2007)
"... "bleak and disturbing... dead-on-target .,,'! his first novel is a work of pure psychological conflict. Cone are the game-like "smart" bomb videos, ..."

4. America in Peril -- An Understatement! by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn (1995)
"I had just recently started to receive the newspaper CONTACT, due to a very good friend of mine, BW I find that your news reports are “dead on target”, ..."

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