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go down verb- to happen US, 1946
- There’s not that much truth going down in the straight world. — Leonard Wolfe (Editor), Voices from the Love Generation, p. 33, 1968
- With all the other shit going down in Chicago during the week, it should be kept in mind that the Festival of Life is NOT a “protest” of any kind. — John Sinclair, Guitar Army, p. 90, 1972
- Number one contender for the middleweight crown / Had no idea what kinda shit was about to go down. — Bob Dylan, Hurricane, 1975
- Just think, if we had known what was going to go down, we would have been a lot less careful and maybe I would have your child now. — Odie Hawkins, The Busting Out of an Ordinary Man, p. 11, 1985
- I always figured if a bust ever went down I’d be the guy they’d come for. — Herbert Huncke, Guilty of Everything, p. 195, 1990
- Me and Mr. Orange jumped in the car and Mr. Brown floored it. After that, I don’t know what went down. — Reservoir Dogs, 1992
- What’s goin’ down, son? — Basic Instinct, 1992
- But there was nowt goin’ down anywhere except cocaine, pills and vintage Dom P. — Ben Elton, High Society, p. 119, 2002
- to be arrested and/or imprisoned UK, 1906
- Vito, Lilo, Big John, Chin, everybody went down. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 46, 1975
- They’re makin’ me bankrupt. I’ll go down before you[.] — Alan Bleasdale, Boys From the Blackstuff, 1982
- Your boys are going down. I can’t stop it anymore. — A Few Good Men, 1992
- [S]ometimes literally meaning down the court steps. — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 57, 1996
- [T]he reason they’re frightened of getting caught is that they don’t want to go down and "lose their freedom". — Danny King, The Burglar Diaries, p. 18, 2001
- while working as a police officer in a patrol car, to park and sleep US
- As a rookie cop, Serpico was also introduced to the fine art of “cooping,” or sleeping on duty, a time-honored police practice that in other cites goes under such names as “huddling” and “going down.” — Peter Maas, Serpico, p. 63, 1973
- to be arrested US
- If a Boston Globe reporter goes down for holding on the job, there’ll be such a vicious outcry against the “drug-maddened press” that free-lancers like me – who look a bit strange anyway – will be locked up on sight. — Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in America, p. 99, 20 June 1968: “Letter to Bill Cardoso”
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