"hit the deck" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: hits the deck [present, singular, third-person], hitting the deck [participle, present], hit the deck [participle, past], hit the deck [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|hit<,,hit> the deck}} hit the deck (third-person singular simple present hits the deck, present participle hitting the deck, simple past and past participle hit the deck)
  1. (informal) To drop to a lying or other low position, especially quickly. Tags: informal Coordinate_terms (to drop quickly to a low position): duck Translations (To drop to a lying or other low position, especially quickly): tiarap (Indonesian), mettersi giù (Italian), ложись (ložisʹ) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-hit_the_deck-en-verb-MC5NdEVe Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for hit the deck meaning in English (1.6kB)

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