take a dive

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   pretend to be knocked out, as of a boxer

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Questions about take a dive

What does take a dive mean?

take a dive means "pretend to be knocked out, as of a boxer".

Is take a dive a common word?

take a dive 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.