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downer
[ dou-ner ]
noun
- Informal.
- a depressant or sedative drug, especially a barbiturate.
- a depressing experience, person, or situation.
- Animal Husbandry. an old or diseased animal, especially one that cannot stand up.
downer
/ ˈdaʊnə /
noun
- Also calleddown a barbiturate, tranquillizer, or narcotic Compare upper
- a depressing experience
- a state of depression
he's on a downer today
Word History and Origins
Origin of downer1
Example Sentences
But—not to be a Debbie Downer here—your death and my death are inevitable.
Unlike steroids, which make a guy crazy, HGH is mostly a quality-of-life downer.
France does not like to see it described as an AIDS documentary, which inevitably sounds like something of a downer.
On top of everything else, I do not want to seem like the Debbie Downer in this scenario.
Few political watchers thought Romney would wrap anything up Tuesday, but the returns must still have come as a bit of a downer.
The accompanying portrait is from an oil painting in the possession of his grand-daughter, Mrs. Samuel Downer, of Dorchester.
There was Downer, a little Freshman, white with the excitement of his first public performance.
Here Dr. Eliphalet Downer, in single combat with a soldier, killed him with a bayonet.
“Very well, Jerry Downer; you are dismissed,” and he waved Jerry out of the room.
Last fall I potted some of the Downer, and in the winter grew them in the house.
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