User Contributed Dictionary
Noun
- A kind of trap for large animals, consisting of a heavy board or log that falls on to the prey.
- In the context of "US|slang": A cheap, rough saloon or bar.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 406:
- They had lived down in horse barns, army “A” tents with the old blood-stains onto them, city hotels with canopy beds, woke up in back rooms of deadfalls where the bars had toothmarks end to end.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 406:
Synonyms
- italbrac trap: deadfall trap
Derived terms
Extensive Definition
Deadfall is a 1993 film
directed by Christopher
Coppola and starring Nicolas
Cage, Charlie
Sheen, James
Coburn, and Peter Fonda.
Despite the star power, the film was a box office
failure.
External links
deadfall in Bulgarian: Примка
deadfall in German: Deadfall
deadfall in French: Deadfall (film, 1993)
deadfall in Dutch: Deadfall
deadfall in Russian: Смертельное падение
(фильм)
deadfall in Turkish: Deadfall