Usually means: Leave vessel immediately, safety compromised.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. abandon ship: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. abandon ship: Collins English Dictionary
  3. abandon ship: Wiktionary
  4. Abandon Ship (Knife Party album), Abandon Ship, Abandon Ship: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. abandon ship: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abandon ship: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abandon-ship, abandon ship, abandon ship: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (abandon ship)

verb:  (nautical, literal) To leave or forsake a ship due to its impending doom.
verb:  (by extension) To leave a person or organization when things become difficult.

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