Word: go down Part of Speech: verb 1. To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one. Example: go down to the grave 2. To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one. Labels: intransitive Example: It'll be cooler once the sun goes down. Example: You can be heroic and start the process of truly saving the world before the Sun goes down tonight. 3. To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one. Labels: intransitive Example: The unemployment rate has gone down significantly in recent months. 4. To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one. Labels: intransitive Example: The boxer went down in the second round, after a blow to the chin. 5. To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one. Labels: intransitive Example: The plane went down thirty miles from shore. 6. To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one. Example: SMS Pommern went down with all hands at Jutland. Example: 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. 7. To be received or accepted. Labels: intransitive Example: The news didn't go down well with her parents. 8. To be received or accepted. Labels: UK, colloquial, intransitive Example: That meal went down a treat. 9. To be blamed for something; to be the scapegoat; to go to prison. Labels: intransitive Example: Rodney's not here; after the shootout, he went down and won't be back for at least a year. 10. To be recorded or remembered (as). Labels: intransitive Example: Today will go down as a monumental failure. Example: 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. 11. To take place, happen. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: Three cups of coffee, but I can't clear my head from what went down last night. Example: 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. 12. To attack another gang. Labels: intransitive, slang 13. To perform oral sex. Labels: intransitive, with-on Example: He felt nervous about going down on his girlfriend for the first time. Example: An older version of me / Is she perverted like me? / Would she go down on you in a theater? 14. To stop functioning, to go offline. Labels: intransitive Example: Did the server just go down again? We'll have to reboot it. Example: 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! 15. To be soundly defeated. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: You guys are going down! Example: “It's time for a chicken fight,” Ziggy shouted, grabbing me around the waist. “Fuck yeah. You boys are going down,” Trey shouted[…] 16. To physically leave one's university, either permanently or in some other non-transient sense (such as following the end of term). Labels: dated, intransitive Example: Following the death of her mother, she went down from Cambridge for a few days so as to attend the funeral. 17. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, down. Example: You'll need to go down two floors to get to that office. Example: I'm going straight down to the store to redeem that bill.