Sekirov Dictionary

deep six

noun 2
verb 2
forms 6

noun2

•
(informal) An ejection, discardment or destruction.
- Otherwise when Don got in trouble he might have really got the deep six. He had a pretty level head, though, and I guess that's what saved him. — 1950
•
(informal) The grave or death; also, the (notional) place where something is discarded.
- The discretion of social conversation, even among friends, is exceeded only by the discretion of “the deep six,” that grave wherein nothing is mentioned at all. — 2004

verb2

•
(informal) To discard, get rid of, or cancel; to completely put an end to something.
- They had put many hundreds of hours into the project before it was deep-sixed by management.
(informal) To submerge (something) in water.

forms

deep sixed · deep-sixed · deep sixing · deep-sixing · deep sixes · deep-sixes

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