take a dive
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take a dive
verb takes a dive · taking a dive · took a dive · taken a dive
- To decline rapidly. Other broad market gauges took even steeper dives, with the Standard & Poor's 500, which includes financial stocks, falling 9.93%.
- To feign a knockout in order to lose intentionally. I decided there could be a nice bit of irony in a situation where a boxer, with a crown his for the taking, deliberately takes a dive to get revenge on the man he hates, who is betting everything on the boxer's victory.
- To lose or fail intentionally.
Similar: throw
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