Usually means: Swimming face down, motionless position.
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  1. dead man's float: Merriam-Webster
  2. dead-man's float: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dead-man's float: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  5. dead-man's float, dead-mans float, dead man's float, dead mans float: Dictionary.com
  6. Dead Man's Float: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. dead-man's float: Rhymezone
  8. dead-mans float: FreeDictionary.org
  9. dead-man's float: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. dead-man's float: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. dead man's float: Wiktionary

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  1. dead man's float: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  (swimming) A floating position in which the swimmer lies face down on the water with the arms extended forward and the legs behind them.


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