From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishknee-deepˌknee-ˈdeep adjective1DEEPdeep enough to reach your kneesknee-deep inknee-deep in mudknee-deep in snow2[not before noun] informalGET having a lot of somethingknee-deep inknee-deep in workExamples from the Corpusknee-deep in• knee-deep in water