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dead heat
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dead heat
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dead heat
noun
plural
dead heats
dead heat
noun
plural
dead heats
Learner's definition of DEAD HEAT
[
count
]
:
a contest in which two or more competitors earn the same score or finish at the same time
—
usually singular
The two horses finished in a
dead heat
.
The election poll showed a statistical
dead heat
. [=showed that the two candidates were equally popular]
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