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deep-six

deep-six is the alternative form of deep six.

Meaning of deep six

Verb

deep six (third-person singular simple present deep sixes, present participle deep sixing, simple past and past participle deep sixed)

  1. (idiomatic, informal, transitive) To discard, get rid of, or cancel; to completely put an end to something.
    • They had put many hundreds of hours into the project before it was deep-sixed by management.
  2. (idiomatic, informal, transitive, uncommon) To submerge (something) in water.

See all 4 meanings of deep six

Forms of deep-six

third-person singular presentdeep-sixes
present participledeep-sixing
past participledeep-sixed
pastdeep-sixed

Questions about deep-six

What is deep-six the alternative form of?
Deep-six is the alternative form of deep six.

Words near deep-six in the dictionary

  1. deep-sea spiny eel
  2. deep-sea spiny eels
  3. deep-seated
  4. deep-seeded
  5. deep-set
  6. deep-six
  7. deep-sixed
  8. deep-sixes
  9. deep-sixing
  10. deep-sky
  11. deep-space

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deep-six (page history and authors); deep six (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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