An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
Down payment.
A hill, especially a chalk hill; rolling grassland
A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
A negative aspect; a downer, a downside.
A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
A downstairs room of a two-story house.
The lightest quark with a charge number of −¹⁄₃.
A field, especially one used for horse racing.
A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
At or towards any place that is visualised as 'down' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
From less to greater detail.
So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
Forward, straight ahead.
In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
To the south (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
As a down payment.
On paper (or in a durable record).
Get down.
Into a state of non-operation.
To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
Away from the city (regardless of direction).
Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, permanence, or success rather than being of indefinite duration.
From a remoter or higher antiquity.
So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
From one end to another of (in any direction); along.
From the higher end to the lower of.
At (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
From north to south of.
To disparage; to put down.
To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
Specifically, to cause (something in the air) to fall to the ground; to bring down (with a missile etc.).
To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
To lower; to put (something) down.
To defeat; to overpower.
To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
Having a lower score than an opponent.
Sick or ill.
Negative about; hostile to.
Comfortable with, accepting of.
Wounded and unable to move normally, or killed.
Facing downwards.
Fallen or felled.
At a lower level than before.
Accepted, respected, or loyally participating in the (thug) community.
Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
Out.
Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.
A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story for editing use.
A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug.
The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
A hard blow, usually with the fist.
A black screen.
A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error; also said in application to typewriters; type slug.
A ship that sails slowly.
The imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared (1 ft/s²) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it.
A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal.
Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.
An accessory to a diesel-electric locomotive, used to increase adhesive weight and allow full power to be applied at a lower speed. It has trucks with traction motors, but lacks a prime mover, being powered by electricity from the mother locomotive, and may or may not have a control cab.
A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
A hitchhiking commuter.
A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
To hit very hard, usually with the fist.
To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.
To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.
To make sluggish.
To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.
To load with a slug or slugs.