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DEEP-SIX, GAVE (SOMEONE) THE

DEEP-SIX, GAVE (SOMEONE) THE
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(slang) disposed of (someone); rejected (someone). The term is originally nautical and meant to throw someone overboard or give someone a burial at sea, suggesting throwing someone into water six fathoms (thirty-six feet) deep. "He was at Oxford, and they gave him the deep-six," and so on, so on. TStudy and Intention (18 Aug. 66)