Also, . Burial at sea. For example, When the torpedo hit our boat, I was sure we'd get the deep six . This expression alludes to the customary six-foot depth of most graves. [Early 1900s]

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Disposal or rejection of something, as in They gave the new plan the deep six . This usage comes from nautical slang of the 1920s for tossing something overboard (to its watery grave; see def. 1). It was transferred to more general kinds of disposal in the 1940s and gave rise to the verb to deep-six , for “toss overboard” or “discard.”

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