VERB
  1. throw from a boat
  2. toss out; get rid of
    deep-six these old souvenirs!
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How To Use deep-six In A Sentence

  • deep-six these old souvenirs!
  • I also deep-sixed a few sites whose content had taken an nosedive in the past two years.
  • They never really wanted to offend their corporate contributors, and now that the elections are over, they've deep-sixed any action to stop this tax scam.
  • The bean counters deep-six one of your equipment purchase orders because they say it's too expensive.
  • Take a deep breath...and burn it in the fireplace, recycle it with this week's trash, or deep-six it in the back of a storage closet. Frank Farwell: Should You Burn Your Business Plan?
  • In stump speeches and interviews, Ms. Bachmann said her tax work helped lead her to the conclusion that the U.S. should "deep-six" the tax code and scrap taxes on inheritance and capital gains, stances that have made her a tea-party favorite. Bachmann's Tax Attorney Job Was Collector for the IRS
  • What might have been an endurable serial killer flick is deep-sixed by superfluous scenes and atrocious writing.
  • As you know, I'd simply like to deep-six his whole project, because it scares me, but I can't.
  • The government clearly had no use for the commission's 1979 report and deep-sixed it on arrival.
  • Well a big chunk of the famed New York subway system is getting deep-sixed, literally.
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