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Bad experience
Answer for the clue "Bad experience ", 6 letters:
downer
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Word definitions for downer in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1966 in sense of "barbiturate;" 1970 in sense of "depressing person;" agent noun from down (v.).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The book is a real downer . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I was off for a week which is alright, but during that week I was heavily doped on downers. ▪ If the Marx Brothers had made a surrealistic comedy while on downers, this ...
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.