dead ahead

1. 1.

   exactly ahead or in front

   “the laboratory is dead ahead”

Questions about dead ahead

What does dead ahead mean?

dead ahead means "exactly ahead or in front".

Is dead ahead a common word?

dead ahead is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.