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downer
noun- a circumstance that depresses; a depressing experience US
From DOWN - Liquor’s a downer! A bad trip! It’ll kill you[.] — Nicholas Von Hoffman, We Are The People Our Parents Warned Us Against, p. 191, 1967
- They put me in gaol. Everything was a downer. — Richard Neville [quoting Otis Cook], Play Power, p. 245, 1970
- Everyone is a junglist now, and if you go and take an E on jungle stuff, you’re going to have a downer, know what I mean? — Macfarlane, Macfarlane & Robson, The User, p. 3, 1996
- This job and that, it’s a bit like one of them. Bit of a downer. — Kevin Sampson, Outlaws, p. 19, 2001
- a barbiturate or other central nervous system depressant US, 1965
- — Joe David Brown (Editor), The Hippies, p. 217, 1967: “Glossary of hippie terms”
- [E]verybody was saying, “Smoke some grass or take downers”. — Nicholas Von Hoffman, We Are The People Our Parents Warned Us Against, p. 223, 1967
- Well, let’s talk him down, give him a place to hide, get him some sugar, some milk, some food, plenty of liquids, get him some downers. — Leonard Wolfe (Editor), Voices from the Love Generation, p. 134, 1968
- — Edward R. Bloomquist, Marijuana, p. 158, 1968
- And I can’t recommend downers because I’ve had too many friends go down and out. — The Last Supplement to the Whole Earth Catalog, p. 83, March 1971
- I mean is it an upper or a downer? — Oscar Zeta Acosta, The Revolt of the Cockroach People, p. 192, 1973
- Prisoners used to be allowed a couple of shots of whiskey in the old days prior to their execution; now they offered downers and an all-American cigarette and coffee. — Ed Sanders, Tales of Beatnik Glory, p. 47, 1975
- “I don’t need no more uppers,” Joanie said, “but downers I could use.” — Emmett Grogan, Final Score, p. 81, 1976
- an animal being led to slaughter that is too sick or crippled to walk into the slaughterhouse US
This sense of the word began to enjoy great popularity in the US in late 2003 with the publicity surrounding Mad Cow Disease in US cattle. - In her early thirties, she is a cocktail waitress in Minneapolis whose off-hour zeal is for ministering to stockyard animals that are too sick or crippled to walk. They are called “downers.” — Washington Post, p. F2, 14 April 1991
▶ have a downer on
to hold something or someone in low esteem AUSTRALIA, 1915- [T]he big [bookmaking] firms have a downer on small jumps courses staging races that, in their view, take too long[.] — The Times, 10 September 2003
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