English
go down
Verb

go down (third-person singular simple present goes down, present participle going down, simple past went down, past participle gone down)

  1. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see go, down
    You'll need to go down two floors to get to that office.
    • 1916, L. Frank Baum, Mary Louise in the Country, Chapter 19:
      I'm going straight down to the store to redeem that bill.
  2. To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.
    go down to the grave
    1. (intransitive, of a heavenly body) Synonym of set, to disappear below the horizon.
      It'll be cooler once the sun goes down.
      • 2010, Stefan Molyneux, Heroism‎:
        You can be heroic and start the process of truly saving the world before the Sun goes down tonight.
    2. (intransitive) To decrease; to change from a greater value to a lesser one.
      The unemployment rate has gone down significantly in recent months.
    3. (intransitive) To fall (down); to fall to the floor.
      The boxer went down in the second round, after a blow to the chin.
    4. (aviation, intransitive) To crash.
      The plane went down thirty miles from shore.
    5. (nautical, of a ship or boat) To sink.
      SMS Pommern went down with all hands at Jutland.
  3. (intransitive) To be received or accepted.
    The news didn't go down well with her parents.
    1. (intransitive, UK, colloquial) To be pleasant, etc., when eaten or drunk.
      That meal went down a treat.
  4. (intransitive) To be blamed for something; to be the scapegoat; to go to prison.
    Rodney's not here; after the shootout, he went down and won't be back for at least a year.
  5. (intransitive) To be recorded or remembered (as).
    Today will go down as a monumental failure.
  6. (intransitive, slang) To take place, happen.
    • 1978, Lou Gramm, Mick Jones, Blue Morning, Blue Day:
      Three cups of coffee, but I can't clear my head from what went down last night.
    • 2020, Arlana Crane, Mordecai's Ashes:
      That was how a drug deal went down? […] Karl shook his head and pulled away from the curb, heading for his next drop and feeling distinctly uncomfortable about the mass of cash now keeping the drugs in his bags company.
  7. (intransitive, slang, AAVE, of a gang) To attack another gang.
  8. (intransitive, with on) To perform oral sex.
    He felt nervous about going down on his girlfriend for the first time.
  9. (intransitive, computing, engineering) To stop functioning, to go offline.
    Did the server just go down again? We'll have to reboot it.
  10. (intransitive, slang) To be soundly defeated.
    You guys are going down!
  11. (intransitive, Oxbridge slang, dated) To physically leave one's university, either permanently or in some other non-transient sense (such as following the end of term).
    Following the death of her mother, she went down from Cambridge for a few days so as to attend the funeral.
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