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What does deep-six mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word deep-six? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (US, idiomatic) to throw something overboard from a ship
  2. (US, idiomatic) to get rid of something unwanted
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Likewise, a promise to deep-six an auto-tax hike could also fall by the wayside.
The bean counters deep-six one of your equipment purchase orders because they say it's too expensive.
Charles River succeeded only in bringing the activist hedge funds out to deep-six the deal.
But first and foremost, we need to deep-six any attempts to hike the sales tax, which is anti-consumer and anti-business.
So even as NASA and its international partners build their brand-new space station Alpha, there is a detailed plan to safely deep-six the outpost when its days are over.
And state Republicans, fed up with Davis' secrecy, have threatened to deep-six the heart of his energy plan unless he comes clean.

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