downer
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
downer (plural downers)
- (slang) A negative drug trip.
- Normally those pills give me a boost, but last night they gave me a downer.
- (slang) A drug that has depressant qualities.
- (slang) Something or someone disagreeable, dispiriting or depressing; a killjoy.
- 2009, Spike Jonze, Where the Wild Things Are (film)
- You don't really need to know me. I'm kind of a downer.
- 2010, Nicole LaPorte, The Men Who Would Be King
- Geffen had never understood why such a downer of a film was being released over the holidays.
- 2009, Spike Jonze, Where the Wild Things Are (film)
- A livestock animal that has collapsed.
- A form of industrial action in which workers down tools and refuse to work.
- C. T. B. Smith, Great Britain. Dept. of Employment, Manpower Papers (issue 15, page 158)
- In the Workplace Industrial Relations Survey, a strike may be a downer or a stoppage as defined by the Department.
- 1985, Alex Callinicos, Mike Simons, The Great Strike: The Miners' Strike of 1984-5 and Its Lessons
- Cowley experienced a rash of 'downers' — short, sharp, unofficial strikes.
- C. T. B. Smith, Great Britain. Dept. of Employment, Manpower Papers (issue 15, page 158)
- (something or someone disagreeable) buzzkill, killjoy, spoilsport; see also Thesaurus:spoilsport
- German: Downer
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