low-down
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8.5
- noun
- /ˈloʊˌdaʊn/
- Slang
:
dato
- Well, I'm so low down, pushed around, fighting mad.
Examples
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Just the sort of low-down trick I would expect from our raging feminist 'Emily's List' government.
Blog text (26) -
Well, Your Highness, what's the low-down?
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I don't know about that, but I did get the low down on Jesse.
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Saunders must have the low-down on this.
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Okay, so here's the low-down.
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A boiled pig foot for your low-down blues.
Academic text (2011) -
Hugh Wallace, NMS's head of digital media, gave us the low-down on the practical application of the change.
Blog text (1) -
It's actually just looking at the the low down features, even though it's a deep neural network, it doesn't, it doesn't grab on to these more abstract concepts like a human would.
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Or you can turn to a thesaurus, which seems, at first, a conservative approach, but quickly reveals its experimental nature or speedily gives the low-down on its developmental essentiality.
Blog text (6) -
Can you share the low-down on the new project proposal?
Synonyms
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9.6
Private information about a person or situation
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9.9
The real facts about a person or situation
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5.8
The true facts about something, often not widely known
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9.8
Information that gives the most important facts about what happened, often secret
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6.2
A fact that people keep secret from others
How Detailed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Low-down comes from the two simple words low and down, which suggest something kept 'down low' or private. So the low-down is the plain, often secret 'true facts' about something.