down-down
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down-down (plural down-downs)
- (slang) Among the Hash House Harriers, a penalty in which an individual must down his or her drink.
- 1987, Susan Scott-Stevens, Foreign Consultants and Counterparts, page 81:
- Exceptions are made for children and non-beer drinking Indonesians — their down-downs are allowed to be made with water or soft drinks.
- 2003, Skiing (volume 56, number 3, November 2003, page 117)
- To be sentenced to a down-down is to be made to chug a beverage (you don't have to drink alcohol to belong anymore).
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