Grateful Dead originated as a theme of stories surrounding a man traveling upon a path and meeting upon death or a life threatening debt. Another man comes along and pays the strangers debt, buries the dead man, pays for his burial, or pays his debts enabling his proper burial. In any case, the restless soul is laid to rest and the protagonist continues about his way only to find himself in peril. At this time, his life is spared by the spirit or effects of the dead man or the heroic actions of the freed man from earlier in the story.
You go to a Grateful Dead Show, but you have no ticket because you blew all your cash smoking out your recently divorced Deadhead buddy. You stand around all day getting stoned for free with your index finger in the air and some gorgeous little hippy chick comes up to you and kisses you on the lips and gives you a free ticket to the show....You, your divorcee buddy, and the cute chick with extra tickets all dance like the Wizard of Oz, hand in hand, up the ramp into the concert. 20 years later you and your Deadhead buddy are talking about the time you and he and his wife met at the Dead Show....
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Dead Mihana is a dead man's marijuana
You: I'm smoking dead Mihana
Pressa: Yo nigga can I have a puff
You: Nah homie this is my celebration for shooting the niggas in the op click.
Pressa: iight homie
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Something or someone who is Grotesque
Wouldn't be seen dead in one of those! that's dead grotty
seen that tart? shes dead grotty
To define a meme that is no longer relevant or not used anymore. Often most people are tired of it. A meme slowly gets forgotten until it is mostly forgotten then it is considered a dead meme.
The Duolingo meme is a dead meme.
Someone who used to play a sport but is not good enough to make it to the next level
You gonna be a dead athlete because you are slow and suck at sports
This is when someone is a shit footballer and has no ability of any sort
Le celso is a dead-baller
When an overbearing, powerful or dangerous figure is dead, or alternatively when someone has lost their fear of life, others, and their own limitations, via life experience and wisdom (most often a single guy in his 30s or 40s) so is therefore unpredictable in his own way and cool, and is as likely to stand up and help the underdog or unlock the genius of others as he is doing something edgy, hurtful or confusing. The 'lion' in this case is/was his place in society, which he has in some regards abandoned or transcended while still being a vibrant and potentially threatening figure with it.
Bye-bye Saddam Hussein. That lion be dead.
Alternatively, for the living: Did you see Paddy Considine in that Dead Man's Shoes film? That one muckerfucking scary but cool Dead Lion.