go down

== English == === Pronunciation === === Verb === go down (third-person singular simple present goes down, present participle going down, simple past went down, past participle gone down) To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one. (intransitive, of a heavenly body) Synonym of set, to disappear below the horizon. (intransitive) To decrease; to change from a greater value to a lesser one. (intransitive) To fall (down); to fall to the floor. (aviation, intransitive) To crash. (nautical, of a ship or boat) To sink. (intransitive) To be received or accepted. (intransitive, UK, colloquial) To be pleasant, etc., when eaten or drunk. (intransitive) To be blamed for something; to be the scapegoat; to go to prison. (intransitive) To be recorded or remembered (as). (intransitive, slang) To take place, happen. (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular, of a gang) To attack another gang. (intransitive, with on) To perform oral sex. (intransitive, computing, engineering) To stop functioning, to go offline. (intransitive, slang) To be soundly defeated. (intransitive, Oxbridge slang, dated) To physically leave one's university, either permanently or in some other non-transient sense (such as following the end of term). Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go,‎ down. ==== Usage notes ==== As down may be used as a preposition or adverb in its own right, the combination go down may also occur in cases where go is used literally. For example, down the street means "away from the speaker along the street in question" regardless of whether go is present: Similarly, Idioms such as these are properly considered senses of down. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== go down on go down with ==== Translations ==== === References === “go down”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.