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Definition of having you dead to rights

have dead to rights

verb - transitive

  • to have sufficient evidence to hold one responsibility.

    Last edited on Sep 02 2009. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 02 2009.

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Other terms relating to 'dead':

Definitions include: to bring up a subject that was resolved (or should have been resolved) long ago.
Definitions include: be in serious trouble.
Definitions include: unintelligent, unwise, inefficient, etc.
Definitions include: to deliberately ignore someone when you meet them.
Definitions include: acronym for "drop dead gorgeous".
Definitions include: to consume or use up.
Definitions include: silence on the radio.
Definitions include: "serious"; "not lying".
Definitions include: without money
Definitions include: extremely drunk - passed out or near to passing out.
Definitions include: extremely tired.
Definitions include: of an activity, an insurmountable obstacle.
Definitions include: a person who simply lays there during sex, without responding.
Definitions include: dead people or persons.
Definitions include: accurate; "dead on".

Other terms relating to 'have':

Definitions include: "The answer to your question is obviously 'yes'."
Definitions include: for every bad thing that happens, there's something positive about it.
Definitions include: acronym for "good luck, have fun".
Definitions include: acronym for "have a great summer".
Definitions include: acronym for "Have a nice day."
Definitions include: a person who was once famous or successful, but is no longer.
Definitions include: a person who has been a lesbian but now lives a heterosexual lifestyle.
Definitions include: to take advantage of.
Definitions include: to have a ball, e.g. a great time.
Definitions include: to have a a problem or grudge with someone.
Definitions include: to reveal information that one shouldn't.
Definitions include: a promiscuous woman.
Definitions include: to be very skilled in a particular area.
Definitions include: See blast.
Definitions include: to have a grudge to discuss.

Other terms relating to 'right':

Definitions include: "all right".
Definitions include: acronym for "Be right back", as in, "I will return soon."
Definitions include: acronym for "be right there".
Definitions include: See "cut to the chase".
Definitions include: "That is right".
Definitions include: acronym for "do the right thing".
Definitions include: afro.
Definitions include: an expression of extreme agreement. more commonly used by itself in agreement with another party. The "Rights" is emphasized
Definitions include: to get high.
Definitions include: to want very badly.
Definitions include: acronym for "I know, right?"
Definitions include: "Everything's okay, I've got everything under control."
Definitions include: In the same tradition as calling shotgun, these two terms refer to the back seats on the left and right side of the vehicle.
Definitions include: the person who one is destined to marry.
Definitions include: the person who one is destined to marry.

Other terms relating to 'to':

Definitions include: extremely intoxicated
Definitions include: See nine to five.
Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.
Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.
Definitions include: a declaration of victory or superiority.
Definitions include: sex in which anal sex is immediately followed by fellatio.
Definitions include: to revisit one's past.
Definitions include: to go back to the beginning.
Definitions include: extreme; "all out".
Definitions include: to be vastly superior.
Definitions include: to perform an activity before someone else.
Definitions include: to be unintelligible.
Definitions include: to do.
Definitions include: more important things to deal with.
Definitions include: to kill or destroy.

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