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go down

verb

also preposition to move or lead to or as if to a lower place or level; sink, decline, decrease, etc
prices are going down
the path goes down to the sea
the ship went down this morning
to be defeated; lose
to be remembered or recorded (esp in the phrase go down in history )
to be received
his speech went down well
(of food) to be swallowed
bridge to fail to make the number of tricks previously contracted for
to leave a college or university at the end of a term or the academic year
usually foll by with to fall ill; be infected
(of a celestial body) to sink or set
the sun went down before we arrived
slang.
to go to prison, esp for a specified period
he went down for six months
slang.
to happen
go down on slang.
to perform cunnilingus or fellatio on

A London woman was offered $31 in Uber credit after her driver “asked me if I wanted him to go down on me,” Newsweek discovered.

A 19-year-old woman was killed in September after an undercover police watched a drug deal go down in Oklahoma City.

But the country also rejects the road the President wants us to go down.

September 6, 2013 is a day that will go down in history, at least in the minds of former staff members of Talk Radio Network.

As hard-fought campaigns go down to the wire, candidates are using everything they have.

To rein up was impossible, to go down would have been almost certain death to horse and man.

He had received no invitation to go down to The Warren, but his father the Justice had written him in no measured terms.

Do you think he must go down to the ground again and go through all the work he had in climbing the first tree?

For hell shall not confess to thee, neither shall death praise thee: nor shall they that go down into the pit, look for thy truth.

I will go down in the morning, and take such delicacies as the woman needs, and see the child at the same time.

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