deep-dive

See also: deep dive

English

Verb

deep-dive (third-person singular simple present deep-dives, present participle deep-diving, simple past deep-dived or deep-dove, past participle deep-dived)

1. (intransitive) To engage in deep diving.
2. (intransitive, idiomatic, often with into) To conduct an in-depth examination or analysis of a topic.
3. (transitive, idiomatic) To involve to immerse oneself thoroughly in (something).
   • 2012 [2011], Jeanette Winterson, Why be Happy When You Could be Normal?, Bath: Windsor, →ISBN, page 9:

     All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long pauses in our speech. The thing is stuck. We get our language back through the language of others. We can turn to the poem. We can open the book. Somebody has been there for us and deep-dived the words.

   • 2019 September 2, Nancy Tartaglione, “‘The King’s Timothée Chalamet & Joel Edgerton On Getting Down In The Mud For David Michod’s Period Epic – Venice”, in Deadline‎^[1]:

     Michod […] told a Venice Film Festival press conference today that the pair “worked out really early on we were going to drift away from the plays themselves. We deep-dived the research and then made a whole bunch of stuff up. I can’t remember what’s real, what’s made up and what’s from Shakespeare,” he laughed.

   • 2023 June 14, Mehera Bonner, “Riley Keough’s Net Worth Seems Kind of Complicated Due to the Elvis Estate”, in Cosmopolitan‎^[2]:

     Love Daisy Jones & the Six? Spending your free time deep-diving Fleetwood Mac drama? Suddenly need to know literally everything about Riley Keough, including how much she was paid for this show, not to mention her total net worth?

Noun

deep-dive (plural deep-dives)

1. Alternative form of deep dive.
   • 2020 December 8, David Barnett, “How John Lennon was made into a myth”, in BBC Culture‎^[3]:

     "The interesting thing as a writer about Snodgrass was that it liberated you from all the clichés about John Lennon, because you could do what you liked with him. There was no official legend of the Beatles to have to fit into," says Quantick, who also wrote a book in 2002, Revolution, which was a deep-dive into the band’s White Album.