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throw down verb- to threaten someone with a weapon US
- The last one, I walked in and threw down on [pointed his gun at] the guy. — Bruce Jackson, In the Life, p. 152, 1972
- The one with the poncho then did his Clint Eastwood impersonation and swept back the poncho and threw down on Manny Lopez with his M-1 carbine air rifle[.] — Joseph Wambaugh, Lines and Shadows, p. 209, 1984
- — William K. Bentley and James M. Corbett, Prison Slang, p. 88, 1992
- to kill US
- Whoever throws you down makes five grand. The word’s out on you. — Mickey Spillane, Me, Hood!, p. 40, 1963
- in basketball, to forcefully drive the ball down through the basket US
- — Jim Crotty, How to Talk American, 1997
- to dance US
Sometimes embellished with “some happy feet” as a direct object. - — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 6, Spring 1983
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