deadfall
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Meaning · English
A cheap, rough bar or saloon.
Register: slang
Where it’s used:
Used
American English
Examples
Dens of the description of the "Tapis Franc," and the "deadfalls" of San Francisco and Sacramento, are now matters of history only, and it seems beyond the bounds of probability that similar haunts of vice, and the brutal and lawless scenes there enacted, will ever again be permitted to disgrace our
Usage example from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30)
Sources & notes
Adapted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30 via kaikki.org).
Common questions
What does “deadfall” mean?
A cheap, rough bar or saloon.
Is “deadfall” formal or informal?
deadfall is generally slang.