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Jokes, mostly personal, causing degradation
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comedown
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A sudden drop to a lower status, condition or level; a disappointment or letdown 2 A calm, mellow period experienced after the initial high from taking drugs
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Comedown or crashing is the deterioration in mood that happens as a psychoactive drug is cleared from the blood and thus the cerebral circulation . The improvement and deterioration of mood ( euphoria and dysphoria ) are represented in the cognitive schema ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Comedown \Come"down`\, n. A downfall; an humiliation. [Colloq.]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Teaching eighth-grade English must be a big comedown for a man with two PhDs. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But his failure was a bitter comedown . ▪ Going into another troupe after being a Tiller would have been too much of ...
Usage examples of comedown.
He had a suspicion that as well as being in some kind of delayed shock, he was probably also suffering a multiple comedown from all the mind alterers he'd been fed in the bunker.
I’ve seen more comedowns brought about by business associates thinking with {Page 210} their brains in their groins instead of in their heads where they belong.
It wasn't the familiar howling of decapitated brujos that you hear on peyote comedowns, nor the choiring arguments of angels and devils that LSD can provoke.
Nobody's likely to comedown the road at this hour -it'sa dead end.