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downer

1. A bad or depressing thing or situation. Geez, that movie was a real downer. Sorry, I'm being so quiet—this day was just a downer. How can you watch the news every night? You know going into it that it's gonna be a downer!

2. An unpleasant experience induced by drugs. No, I don't take that stuff anymore—I had a downer last time. A: "I'm kind of worried about Tommy because he seems to be having such a downer." B: "Eh, he'll be fine once the drug wears off." I gave up the drugs once most of my trips turned into downers.

3. A drug that acts as a sedative or a depressant. I guess those drugs were downers because they didn't give me the pick-me-up I'd hoped for. Don't you have some sort of prescribed downer you can take when your anxiety gets this bad? You rookie—benzos are downers. That's why you feel exhausted now.

downer

and down and downie

1. n. a barbiturate or a tranquilizer. (Drugs.) Too much booze with those downers, and you’re dead.

2. n. a bad drug experience; a down trip. (Drugs.) That stuff you gave me was a real downer.

3. n. a depressing event; a bad situation; a down trip. These cloudy days are always downers.

downie

verb

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