Definition of davy jones's locker Davy jones's locker
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| davy jones's locker - the bottom of a sea or ocean | ||
| ocean floor, sea floor, ocean bottom, seabed, sea bottom, Davy Jones's locker, Davy Jones | ||
| bottom, bed a cargo ship; "they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms" | ||
| abyssal zone the deep sea (2000 meters or more) where there is no light | ||
| continental shelf | ||
| bathyal district, bathyal zone, continental slope the steep descent of the seabed from the continental shelf to the abyssal zone | ||
| neritic zone | ||
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davy jones's locker
The ocean; the common receptacle for all things thrown overboard; it is a phrase for death or the other world, when speaking of a person who has been buried at sea.
