Definition of "knee-deep" []

• Reaching as high as the knees: knee-deep floodwaters. (adjective)
• Submerged to the knees: was knee-deep in mud. (adjective)
• Deeply occupied or involved: is knee-deep in work. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Instead, he found himself knee-deep in letters from students at Ohio State who wanted to know if I had any other secrets to share."
• ""I am not from here," said the 70-year-old rice farmer, as his bloodshot eyes tried to measure whether his boxy white truck could make it through the knee-deep water."
• "A Coast Guardsman, wanting to memorialize his role in fighting the spill, asked for a tattoo of SpongeBob SquarePants, the cartoon character, standing knee-deep in oil."