dead on arrival
Meaning
Adjective
- Found to be dead upon arriving at hospital.
- Found dead at a scene, upon the arrival of an emergency medical service (EMS) or the police.
- Of a new item: received broken.
- Being a failure from the start, a nonstarter.
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