🥊 A physical fight 🏆 A contest 🔫 Planted evidence

throwdown

9.9

An object secretly placed at a scene to blame someone

noun
/ˈθroʊˌdaʊn/

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The officer was accused of using a throwdown to justify the suspect's arrest.

Examples

Investigators found a throwdown at the scene, raising concerns about police misconduct.
The defense argued that the gun was a throwdown and not the defendant's property.
The police found a throwdown at the crime scene.
He was accused of planting a throwdown to justify the arrest.
The detectives found a throwdown gun hidden behind the bushes, raising concerns about planted evidence.
In the investigation, a throwdown knife was discovered near the crime scene, suggesting possible tampering.
Authorities discovered a throwdown weapon beneath a car during their search, leading to questions about the arrest.

Synonyms

setup

vsthrowdown

87 6.8

An act of tricking someone so they are blamed for a crime they did not commit

is a single physical item secretly planted not the wider act of tricking someone

Antonyms

evidence

∞ 1.8

Things that show something is true, like documents or photos

Surface Forms

throwdown singular

throwdowns plural

Morphology

throwdown = throw (opaque) = down + throw

Although morphologically 'throw' + 'down' is visible, the specialized slang meaning 'weapon placed to create false evidence' is a specific forensic/police usage not predictable from the parts. [Postprocessing: moved 'down' from base_words to prefix]

Etymology

Throwdown comes from throw + down, in the plain sense 'to throw something down', and in police talk this came to mean a weapon secretly left at a scene, so a throwdown is an object used to create 'false evidence'.