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downer
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
downer \downer\ n. a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person.
Syn: sedative, depressant.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1966 in sense of "barbiturate;" 1970 in sense of "depressing person;" agent noun from down (v.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A negative drug trip. 2 A drug that has depressant qualities. 3 Something or someone disagreeable, dispiriting or depressing; a killjoy
WordNet
n. a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person [syn: sedative, sedative drug, depressant]
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
A downer is an animal, usually livestock, that cannot stand on its own and therefore is to be killed. A downed animal, one that is unable to stand, is not necessarily a downer.
The animal's inability to stand may be caused by illness or injury. In nearly all cases it is considered by most farmers to be both humane and cost-effective to kill the animal when it becomes a downer, rather than keeping it alive and unhealthy. Once killed, and depending on how the animal became a downer and how it was killed, the animal may then be incinerated, buried, rendered, or slaughtered. Because of mad cow disease, the slaughter of downer cattle is a topic of great concern.
There are many possible reasons for an animal staying down, including:
- Mastitis
- Metritis
- Hypomagnesaemia
- Hypocalcaemia
- Ketosis
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Dystocia
- Nerve damage
- Pelvic fracture
- Long bone fracture
- Neurological disease
Downer may refer to:
- Downer (surname), various persons of that name
- Downer, Australian Capital Territory, a suburb of Canberra, Australia
- Downer Glacier, Alaska
- Downer, Minnesota, an unincorporated community
- Downer (soil), the New Jersey state soil
- Downer (animal), a livestock animal that is to be killed because it cannot stand
- "Downer" (song), on the grunge band Nirvana's debut album Bleach
- Downer, a hard rock band that released an album on Roadrunner Records in 2001.
- Downers, slang for depressant drugs
- Downer Group, an Australian company
- Downer Rail, an Australian railroad company
- Downer College, a former women's college in Fox Lake, Wisconsin
- Downer Methodist Episcopal Church, in Monroe Township, New Jersey, on the National Register of Historic Places
- Downer Rowhouses, two sets of row houses in Somerville, Massachusetts, both on the National Register of Historic Places
Downer is the New Jersey state soil. The Downer has four soil horizons:
- Surface Layer: dark grayish brown loamy sand
- Subsurface layer: grayish brown sandy loam
- Subsoil - upper: yellowish brown gravelly sandy loam
- Subsoil - lower: yellowish brown sand and coarse sand
The Downer Series was established in 1960 in Gloucester County.
People with the surname Downer include:
- Alec Downer (1910-1981), John Downer's son and a former Australian Minister for Immigration
- Alexander Downer (born 1951), John Downer's grandson and Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs between 1996 and 2007
- Alfred Wallace Downer, a Canadian politician
- Billy Downer (born 1956), deputy director of public prosecutions with the South African National Prosecuting Authority
- George Downer (1839-1916) South Australian lawyer and businessman, brother of John Downer
- George Downer (2003- ) South English Dry Cleaner, brother of Thomas Downer
- Hunt Downer (born 1946), Republican politician in the U.S. state of Louisiana
- John Downer (1843-1915), a Premier of South Australia and member of the inaugural Australian Senate
- Naleya Downer (born 1980), Jamaican retired sprinter
- Wally Downer (1904-1994), Canadian politician
Usage examples of "downer".
He ordered a Downer gang boss to clean up the muddied area, and walked on through the hold to the lift, rode it topside, into a steel, clean corridor, and a small passenger compartment with padded seats.
He leaned back in his chair and drank bitter Downer wine, in his apartment which was piled with the stacked expensive furniture which had been in the other, severed, rooms.
It was all at once home, the hall with the dishes stowed in the clothing lockers and the living room which was bedroom by night, with boxes lashed in the corner, Downer wickerwork, with what should have gone into the hall lockers.
Emilio gazed on her with somewhat of guilt, that for as long as they had dealt with Downers, there was none of them who could manage more than a few of the chattering Downer words.
They enjoyed the changes the sky made hour by hour, and the sound of the wind in the grass and the forest about them, laughed at Downer pranks and ruled the whole world, with power to solve everything but the weather.
The Downer touched his hand in turn, a calloused brush of flesh, bobbed several times in the residue of excitement.
A few of the Downer workers were in the corridor, tending the plants which grew there.
He poured two, sipped at the Downer wine and tried to warm the tremors from his limbs, the twinges of pain from his chest.
They were tired, very tired, for there had been a great load to move this day, and although the big machines did most of the work, it was Downer muscle which set the loads on the machines and humans who did the shouting.
All Downer work crews, report to your section habitats at once and wait for someone to direct you.
They had gotten the dead Downer into a bodybag and onto a stretcher for removal.
His breath took on the suck and hiss he associated subconsciously with Downer presence, loud in the metal chamber.
The next door opened, on the flare of light and armed men, and the Downer started within the circle of his arm, snarled and spat, yielded to a reassuring hug.
He urged the Downer to sit on the floor by the wall, and Elene was ordering the medic over.
A thin, grayed Downer frowned up at him from eyes surrounded with wrinkles.