put-down

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

(informal) a remark or criticism that is intended to make sb look or feel stupid: She couldn't think of a good put-down quickly enough. \

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

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put-downEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus put-downEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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