kneedeep
adjective
1.
reaching the knees: knee-deep mud.
2.
submerged or covered up to the knees: knee-deep in water.
3.
deeply embroiled; enmeshed; involved: knee-deep in trouble.
Origin:
1525–35
1525–35
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| knee-deep | |
| —adj (often foll by in) | |
| 1. | so deep as to reach or cover the knees: knee-deep mud |
| 2. | a. sunk or covered to the knees: knee-deep in sand |
| b. immersed; deeply involved: knee-deep in work | |
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Kneedeep
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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