Definitions for lowdown

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lowdown low·down

Spelling: [noun loh-doun; adjective loh- Lowdown is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 60 anagrams from letters in lowdown (dlnooww).

Definitions for lowdown

noun

1. the real and unadorned facts; the true, secret, or inside information (usually preceded by the):

adjective

1. contemptible; base; mean:
2. low, especially socially or morally; degraded.

Origin of lowdown

First recorded in 1540-50; low¹ + down¹

Examples for lowdown

You stinkin, lowdown Mick, youve been givin us dirt all winter.

He could be lowdown and vulgar enough to ask right out if he wished.

He treated me mighty sorry—it was lowdown and mean all the way through, the way he done me—but I didn't mean him no real harm.

One is lowdown and contemptible and nasty, and the other is expedient.

You can't give up a lowdown trade That your ancestors began; A butcher butchers things, and yet He's the tenderest-hearted man.

En you ain't got no mo' feelin' den to come en tell me, dat fetched sich a po' lowdown ornery rabbit into de worl'!

lowdown Mr. Lee trained the elephants to shoot mud and water from their trunks whenever threatened.