hit the deck

1. 1.

   fall or drop suddenly, usually to evade some danger

   “The soldiers hit the dirt when they heard gunfire”

   Synonymshit the dirt

   Broadermove

Questions about hit the deck

What does hit the deck mean?

hit the deck means "fall or drop suddenly, usually to evade some danger".

What is another word for hit the deck?

Close synonyms include hit the dirt. 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 hit the deck a common word?

hit the deck 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.