Usually means: Discard, dispose of, or cancel.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word deep-six:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. deep-six: Merriam-Webster
  2. deep-six: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. 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: Wiktionary
  8. deep-six: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. deep-six: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. deep-six: Dictionary.com
  11. deep-six: Rhymezone
  12. deep-six: FreeDictionary.org
  13. deep-six: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. deep-six: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deep-six: Urban Dictionary

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▸ verb:  Alternative form of deep six [(idiomatic) To discard, get rid of, or cancel; to completely put an end to something.]

Similar:
give it the deep six, throw overboard, crash-dive, dead-drop, de-dupe, know inside out, deepdraw, Deep Throat, dead pan, Frisbee, more...

Opposite:
retrieve, salvage, recover

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Similar:
give it the deep six, throw overboard, crash-dive, dead-drop, de-dupe, know inside out, deepdraw, Deep Throat, dead pan, Frisbee, more...

Opposite:
retrieve, salvage, recover



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