down with
Interjection
  1. Expressing disapproval of or encouraging actions against a person, organization, practice, belief, etc., typically in a public protest.
    • 1877, Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal (volumes 145-146, page 273)
      The fugitives passed by his horse, through the group of the generals, through the foot guards, on the way towards Sedan with the cry, "Everyone for himself! All is lost! All is finished! Down with the Emperor — down with the generals who have betrayed us! On, on!"
  2. Away with...!, cease!
    Down with that noise!
Antonyms Translations Translations Adjective
  1. (informal) comfortable with; accepting or approving of; okay with
    • 2017, Iona Morrison, Dance with a Devil, The Wild Rose Press Inc (ISBN 9781509212170)
      “If I can make your lives easier by staying where I'm supposed to, I'm down with it.”
    • 2014, Harvey Douglas Wall, HAM The Fire Starter, AuthorHouse (ISBN 9781491836422), page 99
      “They both looked at each other and she smiled and said, “I'm down with it, let's do it.”
    • 2014, Poe Hawkins, The Last Alchemist: And the Love of His Life, Balboa Press (ISBN 9781452596563), page 204
      “Hey, dude, are you down with this groove?”
    • 2012, O’Shun M Jones, The Commission: A Hip Hop Interpretation of the Mafia, Xlibris Corporation (ISBN 9781456877859), page 38
      Now are you down with this shit one hundred percent, because this isn't the Carolinas. The game is bigger than those two states.”
    • 2008, H.A. Covington, The Brigade, Xlibris Corporation (ISBN 9781465324986), page 187
      “Look, are you down with this or not, Kicky? I need to know now.



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