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lowdown

[ noun loh-doun; adjective loh-doun ]

noun

  1. Usually the lowdown. the real and unadorned facts; the true, secret, or inside information:

    We gave them the lowdown on the new housing project.



adjective

  1. a lowdown trick.

  2. low, especially socially or morally; degraded.
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of lowdown1

First recorded in 1540–50; low 1 + down 1
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I don't care what some chef in a toque says about caramelizing onions; I want to hear the telephone cord cooking lowdown you'd warn your cousin about when she was making dinner.

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But she performs all the characters herself, and when she launches into song with her exquisite voice, moving from a range of high bell-like clarity to dusky lowdown in both original material by Irving and tweaked standards, the show is most fully alive.

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Unlike in the moments after Reagan and his predecessor, Gerald Ford, were shot, you probably didn’t turn on the nearest TV or flee to the closest newsstand to get the lowdown.

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“He gave me the lowdown,” Crawford said.

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BBC Sport has the lowdown on all the things you need to know.

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