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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.
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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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Word Origin & History
deadpan
1928, from dead + pan in slang sense of "face."
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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