dead pan's Usage Examples:

gangster tells a man on the other end of a phone conversation to "give it a dead pan" (with the emphasis on "pan"), so that the man does not inadvertently alert.

He struggled for a dead pan but couldn't hold it; the devilish twinkle of his eye and the quirk of.

Synonyms:

pulseless; departed; exsanguinous; late; fallen; d.o.a.; doomed; exsanguine; nonviable; stone-dead; murdered; assassinated; inanimate; slain; executed; at rest; breathless; deceased; lifeless; brain dead; gone; stillborn; life; asleep; exanimate; vitality; deathly; bloodless; animation; cold; living; deathlike; aliveness; at peace; defunct;

Antonyms:

alive; early; middle; punctual; up;