hit the deck

Verb

Meaning

fall or drop suddenly, usually to evade some danger

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

hit the dirt fall drop go down roll out get down fall down drop down take cover fall to the ground show a leg fall suddenly duck and cover hit the ground drop to the ground

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Antonyms

rise arise ascend stand up call it a day rise up

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Hypernyms

move

Examples

He turned his head, reacted in a microsecond, and hit the deck just before a hundred-mile-an-hour fastball zipped past his ear and clanged into the wire backstop. Had the pitch been another inch lower or a few miles an hour faster, he would have been beaned and, at that speed, possibly killed. Lis Wiehl

Curran and I mixed about as well as glycerin and nitric acid: put us together, shake a bit, and hit the deck as we exploded. Ilona Andrews

The soldiers hit the dirt when they heard gunfire Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

hit the button hit the ceiling hit the century mark hit the dirt hit the fan hit the gas