Definitions for downer

downer down·er

Spelling: [dou-ner]
IPA: /ˈdaʊ nər/

Downer is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 110 anagrams from letters in downer (denorw).

Definitions for downer

noun

  1. Informal. a depressant or sedative drug, especially a barbiturate. a depressing experience, person, or situation.
  2. Animal Husbandry. an old or diseased animal, especially one that cannot stand up.

Origin of downer

1910-15, Americanism, for an earlier sense; 1965-70, for def 1; down1 + -er1

Examples for downer

Last fall I potted some of the downer, and in the winter grew them in the house.

Seemingly, some of the cast members learned how to spot the STD, which appears to be quite the downer.

Some berries shine, the downer glows as if there were a red bloom upon it.

Few political watchers thought Romney would wrap anything up Tuesday, but the returns must still have come as a bit of a downer.

It has led, a downer for us frequent fliers, to yet another James Patterson bestseller.

France does not like to see it described as an AIDS documentary, which inevitably sounds like something of a downer.

That's not to send a message that next season's going to be a downer, because it won't be.

Make him lively, cook him; tell him who taught you; a downer to him, and I'll marry you to-morrow!'

downer's Cleaning and Polishing Oil for bright metals, is the oldest and best in the market.

Here was a great mortgage on the downer farm, that the Eastmans had partly cut into city lots.

Word Value for downer
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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