waist-deep

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Adjective

waist-deep (not comparable)

1. (of water etc) As deep as would reach to the waist (of a standing person).

   Coordinate terms: ankle-deep, elbow-deep, knee-deep, neckdeep

   Near-synonym: waist-high

   • 1982, Champ Clark, “The Yangtze: China's Second Killer River”, in Flood (Planet Earth)‎^[1], Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 49, column 2:

     When the river broke through defenses near the city of Wuhan in Hopeh^{[sic – meaning Hupeh]} Province, Peking Radio reported that 10,000 peasants with straw mats on their backs stood waist-deep in the water to form a human dike until their places could be filled with sandbags.

Derived terms

• waist-deep in the Big Muddy