Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
a. (context of water etc English) As deep as would reach to the waist (of a standing person).
WordNet
adv. up to the waist; "the water rose waist-high" [syn: waist-high]
Usage examples of "waist-deep".
As it touched the sand a dark horde of Ansar clambered out into the waist-deep water and waded on to the narrow strip of mud below the walls.
Splashing along frantically, she caught up with the rimoriks as they nosed a fairly large, oddly made watercraft out of the creek mouth into waist-deep water.
Sunbright sucked wind as they swished through prairie grass, waist-deep on the dwarves.
The Voltigeurs were wading through the half-crushed crops like men struggling through waist-deep water.
Twenty minutes later, Jake sat waist-deep in a steaming galvanized iron bath, set out alfresco under the mahogany trees.
They were waist-deep in the engine compartment, checking out the belts and the radiator, which was miraculously free of the corrosion and the green gunk that is the residue of years of antifreeze, checking out the generator and the tight, gleaming pistons socketed in their valves.
Miss Concher was standing waist-deep in the cave excavation, lifting out objects and using the main trench as a display shelf.
The young dabbawalla skipped nimbly through the shadow-crowd, because he was used to such conditions, think, Spoono, picture, thirty-forty tiffins in a long wooden tray on your head, and when the local train stops you have maybe one minute to push on or off, and then running in the streets, flat out, yaar, with the trucks buses scooters cycles and what-all, one-two, one-two, lunch, lunch, the dabbas must get through, and in the monsoon running down the railway line when the train broke down, or waist-deep in water in some flooded street, and there were gangs, Salad baba, truly, organized gangs of dabba-stealers, it's a hungry city, baby, what to tell you, but we could handle them, we were everywhere, knew everything, what thieves could escape our eyes and ears, we never went to any policia, we looked after our own.
He floundered out into waist-deep water and then stepped off the edge of an unseen terrace lurking beneath the surface.
Others, including the Gilberts, were saved by strong tidal currents that dragged them to a shallow sandbar where they waited in waist-deep water, their hair matted to pink skulls, each of them still wearing a plastic nametag that said, “Hi!
Having recovered his physical if not his emotional equilibrium, Hawkins was sitting waist-deep in the warm salt water, grousing angrily to himself.
He sees the firelance and jumps off the side of the seawall into waist-deep water.
A hillside waist-deep in golden grass, green eucalyptus with pale bark peeling in graceful ribbons, a wild sky alive with rain and wind .
Surprising, that is, for someone about to wade waist-deep in raw sewage with frozen crusty bits on top.
Others, including the Gilberts, were saved by strong tidal currents that dragged them to a shallow sandbar where they waited in waist-deep water, their hair matted to pink skulls, each of them still wearing a plastic nametag that said, “.