Wiktionary
vb. (idiomatic) To come as fast as one can, often in a harried state.
Wikipedia
"Dead Run" is the second segment of the nineteenth episode from the first season (1985–86) of the television series The Twilight Zone.
Dead Run is the third book by mother and daughter authors P. J. Tracy. It follows on from their first and second books, Want to Play? and Live Bait and has the same principal characters.
Dead Run is a 1967 American-German-French-Italian co-production crime film written and directed by Christian-Jaque. It is based on the novel Dead Run by Robert Sheckley. The movie was shot in Berlin, Vienna, Paris, and Lucerne Kanton Luzern.
Usage examples of "dead run".
A regiment, full front, would charge down upon a dead run from the far field, men shouting, sabers flashing, horses thundering along, so that the ground shook, towards the imperial party, and, when near, stop suddenly, wheel to right and left, and gallop back.
DeChooch leveled the gun again, and Mooner took off up the aisle, at a dead run.
The first two came to such a screeching halt that he wondered if they had hurried to the scene at a dead run and were having trouble braking.
I went down the hall at a dead run, brushing past a gaggle of tourists, and on into the corridor that led to the service stairs.
There was no one in sight, but she leaped out as soon as the boat grated onto the rocks, hoisted her skirts and darted up the sloping bank at a dead run she maintained all the way back to her tent where she collapsed in a panting pile of sweat.
His wide eyes flashed to her Great Serpent ring, and he squeaked and made an even deeper bow before darting away at a dead run.