a depressant or sedative drug, especially a barbiturate.
a depressing experience, person, or situation.
Animal Husbandry. an old or diseased animal, especially one that cannot stand up.
France does not like to see it described as an AIDS documentary, which inevitably sounds like something of a downer.
Few political watchers thought Romney would wrap anything up Tuesday, but the returns must still have come as a bit of a downer.
Seemingly, some of the cast members learned how to spot the STD, which appears to be quite the downer.
That's not to send a message that next season's going to be a downer, because it won't be.
It has led, a downer for us frequent fliers, to yet another James Patterson bestseller.
Downer's Cleaning and Polishing Oil for bright metals, is the oldest and best in the market.
Here was a great mortgage on the Downer farm, that the Eastmans had partly cut into city lots.
Last fall I potted some of the Downer, and in the winter grew them in the house.
Some berries shine, the Downer glows as if there were a red bloom upon it.
1966 in sense of "barbiturate;" 1970 in sense of "depressing person;" agent noun from down (v.).