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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Slang Burial at sea.
  2. n. Slang Disposal or rejection of something: gave all our plans the deep six.

Wiktionary

  1. v. idiomatic To discard, cancel, halt; to completely put an end to something.

Etymologies

  1. A nautical expression indicating a water depth of 6 fathoms (36 feet) as measured by a sounding line; "deep six" acquired its idiomatic definition from the fact that something thrown overboard at or greater than this depth would be difficult if not impossible to recover. Marks on a sounding line were traditionally placed at 2, 3, 5, 7, 10, 13, 15, 17, and 20 fathoms. The "leadsman" called out the depth as he read it off the line. If the depth was at a mark he would call "by the mark" followed by the number, if the depth was between two marks, he would call "by the deep" followed by the estimated number. Six fathoms would therefore be reported as "by the deep six." (Wiktionary)
  2. American slang, a grave, referring to the conventional depth of a grave (six feet). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (2)

Words with the same meaning

  1. give it the deep six
  1. throw overboard

hypernyms (14)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. throwaway
  2. fling
  1. dispose
  2. toss away
  1. chuck out
  2. toss out
  1. discard
  2. put away
  1. cast aside
  2. cast out
  1. castaway
  2. toss
  1. throw out
  2. throw

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. deep
  2. parapaguridæ
  1. quarter-timber
  2. armor-bar
  1. delta wave
  2. deep six
  1. misfortune
  2. mode
  1. polymixiidæ
  2. Liverpool
  1. propterus

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