Usually means: Dispose of something permanently, secretly.
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  1. deep-six, deep six: Merriam-Webster
  2. deep-six: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deep-six, deep six: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. deep-six, deep-six: Collins English Dictionary
  5. deep-six: Vocabulary.com
  6. deep-six: Wordnik
  7. deep-six, deep six: Wiktionary
  8. deep-six: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. deep-six: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. deep six: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. deep-six, deep six: Dictionary.com
  12. deep six (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
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  14. deep-six: Rhymezone
  15. deep-six: FreeDictionary.org
  16. deep-six: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Deep Six: The Word Detective
  18. deep-six, deep six: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. deep six: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. deep-six: A Word A Day
  2. deep-six: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. deep six, deep six: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. deep-six, deep six: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (deep six)

verb:  (idiomatic) To discard, get rid of, or cancel; to completely put an end to something.
noun:  Ejection, discardment or destruction.
noun:  The grave or death; also, the (notional) place where something is discarded.

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