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[ UK /dˈa‍ʊnɐ/ ]
[ US /ˈdaʊnɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person

How To Use downer In A Sentence

  • People were gulping down sundowners, women seemed to be, rather disinterestedly, sipping their drinks and picking up a bite.
  • The landowner instantly conceives a dislike of the dog and demands that she be gotten rid of.
  • Faced with difficulties from recalcitrant landowners and political opponents, the scheme eventually necessitated financial rescue by the king himself.
  • What a downer that guy is!
  • We are ready to work with landowners and farmers to look after farmland wildlife. Times, Sunday Times
  • The local landowners and crofters have countered with an alternative proposal for a Wester Ross Wilderness Area.
  • Family forest landowners (often known as tree farmers) take pride in managing their lands.
  • Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians. Che Guevara 
  • Farmers had been a depressed class, paying uneconomic rents to impecunious landowners. IN LOVE AND WAR
  • For me it's uppers, for you it's downers, but either way, it's the same thing.
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