dead first

Adjective

 * 1)  First, especially first place in a competition.
 * 2) * 1987, "Snake tale didn't have a leg to stand on," Lexington Herald Leader (Kentucky, USA), 15 Oct. (retrieved 20 Oct 2010):
 * But when the Great Kroger Bagoff ended the other day at the Alexandria Drive store it was 22-year-old Daniel Vichitbandha who finished dead first.
 * 1) * 1998 November 5, Len Boselovic, "Pittsburgh's Tax Bite 4th Highest of 27 Big U.S. Cities", in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, page E-7:
 * Pittsburgh had finished second in the software firm's 1993 study, when Philadelphia also finished dead first.
 * 1) * 2007, Kathy Sherwin, Road Race - The Hell of the North, blogspot.com, 7 April (retrieved 20 Oct. 2010):
 * Once [sic] race I came in dead first and the other dead last.
 * Once [sic] race I came in dead first and the other dead last.

Usage notes

 * Sometimes used in conjunction with for humorous contrast.