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a. (context idiomatic English) decisive beaten; defeated; rendered irrelevant for the long term.
Wikipedia
Down for the Count is the seventh studio album by American hard rock/ heavy metal band Y&T, released in 1985 through A&M Records. It contains the band's biggest hit "Summertime Girls", which charted at #55 on the Billboard Hot 100. This song had initially appeared as the lone studio track on the band's live album, Open Fire, released earlier in the year.
Down for the Count is an album by Y&T
Down for the Count may also refer to:
- Down for the Count, novel by Stuart M. Kaminsky
- Down for the Count (EP), EP by Title Fight
- "Down For The Count", song by Glenn Miller And His Orchestra, Bill Finegan 1956, The Lambert Singers 1959
Usage examples of "down for the count".
Quiescent and apparently defensive minded though they'd been since Icarus, Pierre was far from convinced that they were down for the count.
As he was dozing off, he figured Captain Szymanski would have to kick him awake, because he was down for the count.