waist-deep

English

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)‎, 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.

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