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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Vocabulary

upper and downer

What does an upper mean? Is it an illegal drug?
What does a downer mean? Is it a tranquilizer or something like that?

What does an upper and downer mean?
  

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------- downer 1 : a depressant drug ; especially : BARBITURATE -- compare UPPER herein 2 : someone or something depressing, disagreeable, or unsatisfactory ---------

  • ------- downer 1 : a depressant drug ; especially : BARBITURATE -- compare UPPER herein 2 : someone or something depressing, disagreeable, or unsatisfactory ---------
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downer


1 : a depressant drug ; especially : BARBITURATE -- compare UPPER herein
2 : someone or something depressing, disagreea
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They also have idiomatic meanings of something that makes you happy or something that makes you sad.

That movie was a real upper! Hearing that Jeanne can't come on the vacation with us was a real downer.

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