deadpan
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adjective
1.
marked by or accomplished with a careful pretense of seriousness or calm detachment; impassive or expressionless: deadpan humor.
2.
displaying no emotional or personal involvement: a deadpan style.
adverb
3.
in a deadpan manner: He spoke his lines utterly deadpan.
verb (used without object), verb (used with object)
4.
to behave or perform in a deadpan manner.
noun Also, dead pan.
5.
a face showing no expression.
6.
a style of comedy that relies on the comedian's maintaining such a face.
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| —adj, —adv | |
| with a deliberately emotionless face or manner: deadpan humour | |
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Word Origin & History
deadpan
1928, from dead + pan in slang sense of "face."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Slang Dictionary
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
Both extremes are actually somewhat funny as the dramatic ones generally play off the more deadpan readers.
After a ghastly pause, he stammers and makes a deadpan joke, barely retrieving the situation.
But there is a limit to how much charm, and how many laughs, he can wring out of deadpan idiocy.
Instead he uses his old comic style--mixing deadpan delivery with wild visual gags--to create an elegant directorial approach.
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