GO DOWN Definition & Meaning

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go down

verb

also preposition to move or lead to or as if to a lower place or level; sink, decline, decrease, etc
prices are going down
the path goes down to the sea
the ship went down this morning
to be defeated; lose
to be remembered or recorded (esp in the phrase go down in history )
to be received
his speech went down well
(of food) to be swallowed
bridge to fail to make the number of tricks previously contracted for
to leave a college or university at the end of a term or the academic year
usually foll by with to fall ill; be infected
(of a celestial body) to sink or set
the sun went down before we arrived
slang.
to go to prison, esp for a specified period
he went down for six months
slang.
to happen
go down on slang.
to perform cunnilingus or fellatio on

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Aside from matches against the three teams destined to go down, they have scored two goals or more on six occasions, including when they lost at home to Nottingham Forest on 7 December.

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Mr Lee said attempts to find substitutes had not gone down well in the past.

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Midfielder John McGinn added to BBC Sport: "No matter what happens until now and whenever he leaves - we hope it's never - he will certainly go down as one of our club's greatest managers."

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"I worked unsociable hours, I finished late, sometimes midnight or one in the morning, it was just the safest option for me to go down there."

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A decline of 20% from a peak is considered a "bear market" - a description of a market that appears to be more likely to go down than go up.

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