What Does the Term Waist Deep Mean?

1 : rising to the waist : waist-high the water was only waist-deep at one end of the pool. 2 : sunk to the waist stood waist-deep in the surf.

What is a waistline meaning?

1a : an arbitrary line encircling the narrowest part of the waist. b : the part of a garment that covers the waistline or may be above or below it as fashion dictates. 2 : body circumference at the waist.

What does it mean to be neck deep?

(Entry 1 of 2) 1 : reaching as high as one's neck She stood in neck-deep water. 2 : standing in something that reaches to one's neck —usually + in She was neck-deep in water. —often used figuratively We were neck-deep in work.