1961, November 2, Jerry Green, Gross Dwarfed, But Not in Ability, Gross, only a 20-year-old junior, is a deadeye passer, a poised runner and a quick-thinking field general.
1999, November 15, Alan Shipnuck, 10 Ucla, Help in that department should come from highly touted freshman Jason Kapono, a 6'7" deadeye shooter who made 211 threes in high school.
2008, Gerald Vizenor, Father Meme, The old man was a natural sniper, a deadeye shooter even as a boy, and he served with my great uncle in the First World War.
2007, September 10, Manohla Dargis, The real Jodie Foster, 100 percent professional, Outlandish in its violence and its conceit, "The Brave One" would be an interesting addendum to Foster's career even without its biographical frisson, without the image of Erica holding a gun with a deadeye stare ...
1989, Tobias Wolff, This Boy's Life: A Memoir, He taught both my mother and me to shoot, taught my mother so well that she became a better shot than he was--a real deadeye.
(uncommon) A penchant for noticing a particular thing, or a person who has such a penchant.
