go down

verb goes down · going down · went down · gone down

1. To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one. go down to the grave
2. intransitive Synonym of set, to disappear below the horizon. It'll be cooler once the sun goes down.
3. intransitive To decrease; to change from a greater value to a lesser one. The unemployment rate has gone down significantly in recent months.
4. intransitive To fall (down); to fall to the floor. The boxer went down in the second round, after a blow to the chin.
5. intransitive To crash. The plane went down thirty miles from shore.
6. To sink. SMS Pommern went down with all hands at Jutland.
7. intransitive To be received or accepted. The news didn't go down well with her parents.
8. UK, colloquial, intransitive To be pleasant, etc., when eaten or drunk. That meal went down a treat.
9. intransitive To be blamed for something; to be the scapegoat; to go to prison. Rodney's not here; after the shootout, he went down and won't be back for at least a year.
10. intransitive To be recorded or remembered (as). Today will go down as a monumental failure.
11. intransitive, slang To take place, happen. Three cups of coffee, but I can't clear my head from what went down last night.
12. intransitive, slang To attack another gang.
13. intransitive, with on To perform oral sex. He felt nervous about going down on his girlfriend for the first time.
14. intransitive To stop functioning, to go offline. Did the server just go down again? We'll have to reboot it.
15. intransitive, slang To be soundly defeated. You guys are going down!
16. dated, intransitive To physically leave one's university, either permanently or in some other non-transient sense (such as following the end of term). Following the death of her mother, she went down from Cambridge for a few days so as to attend the funeral.
17. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, down. You'll need to go down two floors to get to that office.