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1. An uncomfortable period of awkward silence that usually occurs in a tense social setting;
2. A period of time during which a television show is broadcast without an audio portion. Man 1: How was the blind date?
Man 2: OK, but we ran out of things to say while we were at the bar. When we sat down for dinner, neither one of us could think of a thing to say. It was 100% dead air for about five minutes. Man 1: So you didn't get laid? Man 2: Asshat. |
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| 2. | dead air | ||
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a sudden and undesirable silence (from the term for the interruption of radio or television broadcasts) The dead air coming from the bathroom was sign that something dire had happened.
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