down with meaning: definition, quotations

down with

intj

Expressing disapproval of or encouraging actions against a person, organization, practice, belief, etc., typically in a public protest.

Down with the government!
The fugitives passed by his horse, through the group of the generals, through the foot guards, on the way towards Sedan with the cry, "Everyone for himself! All is lost! All is finished! Down with the Emperor — down with the generals who have betrayed us! On, on!"1877, Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal, volumes 145-146, page 273:

prep

Colloquial Comfortable with; having a positive, favourable, or accepting attitude toward; approving of; okay with.

“If I can make your lives easier by staying where I'm supposed to, I'm down with it.”2017, Iona Morrison, Dance with a Devil, The Wild Rose Press Inc, →ISBN:
“They both looked at each other and she smiled and said, “I'm down with it, let's do it.”2014, Harvey Douglas Wall, HAM The Fire Starter, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 99:

3 more examples

“Hey, dude, are you down with this groove?”2014, Poe Hawkins, The Last Alchemist: And the Love of His Life, Balboa Press, →ISBN, page 204:
Now are you down with this shit one hundred percent, because this isn't the Carolinas. The game is bigger than those two states.”2012, O’Shun M Jones, The Commission: A Hip Hop Interpretation of the Mafia, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 38:
“Look, are you down with this or not, Kicky? I need to know now.2008, H.A. Covington, The Brigade, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 187:

Colloquial Suffering from (an illness).