put-down

put-down

See also: putdown and put down

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English put downdeverb.
English put-down

    Deverbal from put down.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈpʊtˌdaʊn/

    Noun

    put-down (plural put-downs)

    1. (idiomatic) An insult or barb; a snide or demeaning remark.
      When he called you a know-it-all, he meant it as a put-down.
      • 2026 February 16, Frank Bruni, “Pam Bondi and the MAGA Brand of Insult Politics”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 16 February 2026:
        But it’s not [Pam] Bondi’s script that matters most. It’s her voice, and the attorney general got the tone of it — the poison in it — just right when she spat those put-downs at those men during her, um, testimony before a House panel last week.

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