give it the deep six

1. 1.

   toss out; get rid of

   “deep-six these old souvenirs!”

   Synonymsdeep-six

   Broaderdiscard

Questions about give it the deep six

What does give it the deep six mean?

give it the deep six means "toss out; get rid of".

What is another word for give it the deep six?

Close synonyms include deep-six. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is give it the deep six a common word?

give it the deep six is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.