Usually means: Submerged halfway up the torso.
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  1. waist-deep: Merriam-Webster
  2. waist-deep: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. waist-deep: Vocabulary.com
  4. waist-deep: Wordnik
  5. waist-deep: Wiktionary
  6. waist-deep: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. waist-deep: Dictionary.com
  8. waist-deep: Rhymezone
  9. waist-deep: FreeDictionary.org
  10. waist-deep: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. waist-deep: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  (of water etc) As deep as would reach to the waist (of a standing person).

Similar:
waist-high, Deepwater, deepe, downsteepy, duck-arsed, DevEx, deef, dancetté, dowf, dewlapped, more...

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waist-high, Deepwater, deepe, downsteepy, duck-arsed, DevEx, deef, dancetté, dowf, dewlapped, more...



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