noun (informal)
1 [usuallypl.] a drug, especially a BARBITURATE, that relaxes you or makes you want to sleep
compareUPPER
2 an experience that makes you feel sad or depressed:
Not getting the promotion was a real downer. * He's really on a downer isn't he? (= very depressed)
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for downer is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does downer appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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