send down
verb1
To cause something or someone to pass from a higher to a lower place.
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Ball games, Cricket, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports To bowl.
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Slang To commit (someone) to a prison term.
- Eventually she was caught, and sent down for twelve years.
- Crypto king or conman: is Sam Bankman-Fried about to be sent down for a century? [title]2023 September 25, Zoe Williams, “Crypto king or conman: is Sam Bankman-Fried about to be sent down for a century?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
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Ball games, Baseball, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports US To demote a player within the levels of professional baseball.
- After performing poorly for the first month of the season, he was sent down to the minor leagues.
Usually Oxbridge slang
- He was sent down from Oxford for theft.
- You climbed the wall, for which you ought to be gated; and finally, you came in blotto, for which you ought to be sent down.1935, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night:
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Communism, Government, Human sciences, Ideology, Philosophy, Politics, Sciences To send a person to the countryside to become a peasant-farmer for re-education; to get in touch with the fundamental values of peasant-based communism (as opposed to urban worker-class proletariat-based communism).
- Derived terms
- sent-down