waist-deep

[weyst-deep]
adjective
being at or rising to the level of the waist.

Origin:
1755–65

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waist-deep

adverb
up to the waist; "the water rose waist-high" 
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Waist-deep is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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.
Example sentences
They were about a mile out and tried to get to the beach in waist-deep water.
Anglers wade waist-deep in the icy water or drill holes through the ice if the
  lake is frozen to scoop up the small fish.
She remembers thinking she was going to die as the flood in her living room
  became waist-deep within a matter of minutes.
Higher flows mean higher water, a stronger current, and may include wading in
  waist-deep water.
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