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Take a dive

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Verb
  1. 1
    To decline rapidly.

    "Other broad market gauges took even steeper dives, with the Standard & Poor's 500, which includes financial stocks, falling 9.93%."

  2. 2
    pretend to be knocked out, as of a boxer wordnet
  3. 3
    To feign a knockout in order to lose intentionally. idiomatic

    "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."

  4. 4
    To lose or fail intentionally. idiomatic

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