Mindanao Deep

[ min-duh-nah-oh deep, -nou ]

noun

1. Philippine Trench ( def ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of Mindanao Deep¹

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

If reality went in for such special effects, some grace might try to freeze in midair the bullets blazing around America -- might slide them back up the gun barrels they came from, and then might drop the guns, especially the guns American youths are using to kill each other, into someplace like the Mindanao Deep.

From Time Magazine Archive

For all the good the Grail was going to do Mallory, it might just as well have been at the bottom of the Mindanao Deep.

From Project Gutenberg