go down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes down
form: going down
form: went down
form: gone down
Senses: examples: text: go down to the grave
glosses: To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.
examples: text: It'll be cooler once the sun goes down.
text: You can be heroic and start the process of truly saving the world before the Sun goes down tonight.
ref: 2010, Stefan Molyneux, Heroism:
glosses: To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.
Synonym of set, to disappear below the horizon.
synonyms: word: set
word: to disappear below the horizon
raw_tags: of a heavenly body
examples: text: The unemployment rate has gone down significantly in recent months.
glosses: To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.
To decrease; to change from a greater value to a lesser one.
examples: text: The boxer went down in the second round, after a blow to the chin.
glosses: To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.
To fall (down); to fall to the floor.
examples: text: The plane went down thirty miles from shore.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.
To crash.
examples: text: SMS Pommern went down with all hands at Jutland.
text: Courageous went down about an hour ago. Glorious also went down toward the end of the battle, cause unknown. Lion is grounded in the shadows of Terschelling, and will not be recoverable. All of the other battlecruisers have medium to heavy damage of one degree or another, with the exception of Renown, which avoided shell damage but took a torpedo at the last moment and is heading home under tow, and, of course, New Zealand, whose sole casualty is a stoker overcome with heat exhaustion.
ref: 2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 27:01 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2022:
text: […]meanwhile, Biloxi and Vincennes are both in the process of going down and being abandoned, whilst Miami is right on the knife-edge of being recoverable, with three destroyers clustering around offering pumping and additional damage-control crews to try and keep the light cruiser afloat.
ref: 2021 May 5, Drachinifel, 43:40 from the start, in Battle of Samar - What if TF34 was there?, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2022:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.
To sink.
raw_tags: of a ship or boat
examples: text: The news didn't go down well with her parents.
glosses: To be received or accepted.
examples: text: That meal went down a treat.
glosses: To be received or accepted.
To be pleasant, etc., when eaten or drunk.
examples: text: Rodney's not here; after the shootout, he went down and won't be back for at least a year.
glosses: To be blamed for something; to be the scapegoat; to go to prison.
examples: text: Today will go down as a monumental failure.
text: A stunning performance from the Republic of Ireland all but sealed progress to Euro 2012 as they crushed nine-man Estonia 4-0 in the first leg of the qualifying play-off tie in A Le Coq Arena in Tallinn. The scoreline did not flatter Ireland who's produced a composed, classy and determined showing that will go down as the highlight of the Giovanni Trapattioni era so far.
ref: 2011 November 11, Rory Houston, “Estonia 0-4 Republic of Ireland”, in RTE Sport:
glosses: To be recorded or remembered (as).
examples: text: Three cups of coffee, but I can't clear my head from what went down last night.
ref: 1978, Lou Gramm, Mick Jones, Blue Morning, Blue Day:
text: That was how a drug deal went down? […] Karl shook his head and pulled away from the curb, heading for his next drop and feeling distinctly uncomfortable about the mass of cash now keeping the drugs in his bags company.
ref: 2020, Arlana Crane, Mordecai's Ashes:
glosses: To take place, happen.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To attack another gang.
raw_tags: of a gang
examples: text: He felt nervous about going down on his girlfriend for the first time.
text: An older version of me / Is she perverted like me? / Would she go down on you in a theater?
ref: 1995, “You Oughta Know”, in Jagged Little Pill, performed by Alanis Morissette:
glosses: To perform oral sex.
examples: text: Did the server just go down again? We'll have to reboot it.
text: As I say, it was a very hot day, and I found that the air-con was better on 777013 than either 777001 or 777009. There are, however, no emergency hopper windows, so if the air-con goes down on a hot day, you will cook!
ref: 2023 January 26, Pip Dunn, “Merseyrail '777s' are OK for commuters”, in RAIL, number 988, page 60:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To stop functioning, to go offline.
examples: text: You guys are going down!
text: “It's time for a chicken fight,” Ziggy shouted, grabbing me around the waist.
“Fuck yeah. You boys are going down,” Trey shouted[…]
ref: 2014, M. M. Koenig, Complicated, page 160:
text: I reckon we'll beat you lot even without any guys on the team.” Robert gave me a grin. ... So he said to Shannon and me, “Okay, you girls are going down, right Jeremy,” and slapped him a high five.
ref: 2014, Tonia Inturrisi, The School Code Part 2: Makeover On The Inside:
text: Fluff started off down the sidewalk, his fluffy tail high in the air, then stopped and looked back at Pandora, saying, “You and your little gang of kitties are going down!”
ref: 2019, Leighann Dobbs, Wrong Side of the Claw:
glosses: To be soundly defeated.
examples: text: Following the death of her mother, she went down from Cambridge for a few days so as to attend the funeral.
qualifier: Oxbridge slang
glosses: To physically leave one's university, either permanently or in some other non-transient sense (such as following the end of term).
examples: text: You'll need to go down two floors to get to that office.
text: I'm going straight down to the store to redeem that bill.
ref: 1916, L. Frank Baum, Mary Louise in the Country, Chapter 19:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, down.
Derived terms: go down fighting
go down in flames
go down like a cup of cold sick
go down like a cup of sick
go down like a lead balloon
go down like a lead zeppelin
go down like a sack of potatoes
go down swinging
go down that road
go down the drain
go down the khazi
go down the pan
go down the toilet
go down the tubes
go down the wrong pipe
go down the wrong throat
go down the wrong way
Related terms: go down on
go down with