go down

Definitions

1. 1

   To descend

   To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.

   • go down to the grave
2. 2

   To be received or accepted.

   • The news didn't go down well with her parents.
3. 3

   To be blamed for something

   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.
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   1. 4

      To be recorded or remembered (as).

      • Today will go down as a monumental failure.
   2. 5

      To take place, happen.

      • Three cups of coffee, but I can't clear my head from what went down last night.
      • 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.
   3. 6

      To attack another gang.

   4. 7

      To perform oral sex.

      • He felt nervous about going down on his girlfriend for the first time.
      • An older version of me / Is she perverted like me? / Would she go down on you in a theater?
   5. 8

      To stop functioning, to go offline.

      • Did the server just go down again? We'll have to reboot it.
      • As I say, it was a very hot day, and I found that the air-con was better on 777013 than either 777001 or 777009. There are, however, no emergency hopper windows, so if the air-con goes down on a hot day, you will cook!
   6. 9

      To be soundly defeated.

      • You guys are going down!
      • “It's time for a chicken fight,” Ziggy shouted, grabbing me around the waist. “Fuck yeah. You boys are going down,” Trey shouted[…]
      • I reckon we'll beat you lot even without any guys on the team.” Robert gave me a grin. ... So he said to Shannon and me, “Okay, you girls are going down, right Jeremy,” and slapped him a high five.
   7. 10

      To physically leave one's university, either permanently or in some other non-transient…

      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.
   8. 11

      Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

      Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, down.

      • You'll need to go down two floors to get to that office.
      • I'm going straight down to the store to redeem that bill.

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