The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dead \Dead\ (d[e^]d), adv. To a degree resembling death; to the last degree; completely; wholly. [Colloq.]
I was tired of reading, and dead sleepy.
--Dickens.
Dead drunk, so drunk as to be unconscious.
Wikipedia
Dead Drunk is a 2006 album by Terrestrial Tones.
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Usage examples of "dead drunk".
When he got there he discovered that the only Ranger who wasn't dead drunk was gimpy Johnny Carthage, the slowest man in camp.
As he paid he told her, 'When I was in high school, I know this kid who worked at the fair, and he said most of the guys who put these rides together are dead drunk and they leave off all sorts of.
She might find him attractive, I knew, but on the other hand he was dead drunk and not likely to be of much use to her.
He had a squaw with him that day, couldn't been more than twelve years old, and so dead drunk he laid her out under the eaves and just forgot about her.
A headache usually accompanied that position, probably because Billy never lay flat on his back unless he was dead drunk.
I wonder what the High Septon would have to say about the sanctity of oaths sworn while dead drunk, chained to a wall, with a sword pressed to your chest?
A lot of prisoners died on route, and that meant stopping the whole trek, finding the sergeant with the keys, who it seemed was always miles back under a kameeldoorn tree, dead drunk or well on the way, then riding back, unlocking the neck-ring of the fellow who'd died.