[VN] [usuallypassive] (AmE, informal) to decide not to do or use sth that you had planned to do or use:
Plans to build a new mall were deep-sixed after protests from local residents.
Rate this entry
About this entry
This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This entry for deep-six is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is deep-six a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, deep-six is tagged as verb.
What is Lughet?
Lughet is a free trilingual dictionary covering nearly five million entries across Uyghur, Chinese, and English, drawn from more than ten source dictionaries and corpora.
