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down
adjective- excellent; loyal; fashionable US, 1946
- She didn’t look like much, but she was a down chick. — Malcolm Braly, Shake Him Till He Rattles, p. 18, 1963
- Even when the block belongs to your own people, you are still an outsider who has to prove himself a down stud with heart. — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 47, 1967
- He explained that I didn’t know him but a friend of both of ours had told him I was “down people” and to turn me on when I arrived. — Babs Gonzales, I Paid My Dues, p. 84, 1967
- This is the life for Kitty. She’s a down ho. — Susan Hall, Gentleman of Leisure, p. 153, 1972
- The tigers would go to the Cabo and the BC, the down P.R.’s would go to the Palladium. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 24, 1975
- My shirts were from Brooks’; my socks cost a pound / I wore solid gold cufflinks–I knew I was down. — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 36, 1976
- — Maledicta, p. 268, Summer/Winter 1981: “By its slang, ye shall know it: the pessimism of prison life”
- Jake the Fake held up his glass for a toast. “Here’s to Taco and Slick, two of the downes’ sistahs that ever did it, two of the hippes’ ladies that it has ever been my purpose to meet and greet..l” — Donald Goines, The Busting Out of an Ordinary Man, p. 74, 1985
- willing, prepared, eager US, 1944
- “Are you still down for it?” “I’m down for it.” — Hal Ellson, The Golden Spike, p. 15, 1952
- He didn’t want to make any money, or he didn’t know how. He just wasn’t down enough. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 159, 1965
- He’s a hype but he is very down with the current scene. — Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice (letter dated 19 September, 1965), p. 46, 1968
- Myself, I’m down for the action anytime, and I don’t want to hear this ol’ bullshit about the little kids in the schoolyard. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 71, 1975
- [N]ow that I wanna flap some skins Brandi ain’t down for it even if I wear a jim hat. — Boyz N The Hood, 1990
- “Fight the Power”, right, dude? We’re down. — Airheads, 1994
- You down with the boost? — Kids, 1995
- aware of the current social fashions and opinions; being or feeling a part of a general or specific social scene US, 1944
A narrowing of the earlier UK C18 sense (wide-awake, suspicious, aware); modern use is mainly black or trendy. - You ain’t down if you ain’t heard of Method Man. — A2Z, p. 30, 1995
- You are a down girl. — Clueless, 1995
- A lady who considered herself down but who found herself frequently exasperated by the imperfections of those less together than her. — Diran Abedayo, My Once Upon A Time, p. 93, 2000
- (of surf conditions) flat US
- — Gary Fairmont R. Filosa II, The Surfer’s Almanac, p. 184, 1977
- depressed UK, 1610
- [H]e–like everyone else at Westminster–saw it as a demotion and he was reported by friends to be “down” for weeks afterwards. — The Guardian, 9 November 1998
- in custody; imprisoned US, 1927
- The first time I was down I come down with assault with attempt to murder. — Bruce Jackson, In the Life, p. 61, 1972
- “You got to treat someone who has been down as long as Carl differently from some kid fresh in from the streets.” — Pete Earley, The Hot House, p. 150, 1992
- Buck, we have here Carl Edward Colbert, escapee from the West Tennessee Reception Center, down for armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon, a pitchfork. — Elmore Leonard, Riding the Rap, p. 136, 1995
- — Don R. McCreary (Editor), Dawg Speak, 2001
- These dawgs have all been down before, and most of them are known quantities on the yard. — Jimmy Lerner, You Got Nothing Coming, p. 192, 2002
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