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発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈləʊ.daʊn/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈloʊ.daʊn/
• 韻: -aʊn

形容詞

low-down (comparative more low-down, superlative most low-down)

1. (idiomatic, slang, US) Of no value.
   • 1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate:

     Seemingly here was an intruder who was violating custom. Moreover, the partners had come to look upon this exceedingly rich district as their exclusive property. And so their indignation was extreme.
     "The low-down, ornery cuss!" said Dobbs. "The nerve of him, crowdin' in on us, just as if there wasn't lots of other places for him to go!"

   • 2007, Olive Ann Burns, Cold Sassy Tree, page 16:

     No-count. Even low-down. I still don't see how Loma could of married into that sharecropper white trash.

2. Down, depressed.
   • 2003, “Hardware Store”, in Poodle Hat, performed by Weird Al:

     Nothing ever happens in this town, feeling low-down, not a lot to do around here.
     I thought that I would go right out of my mind until my friend told me the news.

名詞

low-down (複数形 low-downs)

1. An abject or despicable person.
   • 2014 September 2, William W. Johnstone, A Dangerous Man, Pinnacle Books, →ISBN, page 94:

     He was a lowdown because white men made him that way. Don't you agree?

アナグラム

• down low, down-low, downlow

語源

Compound adjective of low +‎ down in the sense of "humble" recorded in the 1540s, in the sense of "vulgar, far down the social scale" in 1888. Recorded as a noun in 1915 in the slang sense of secret or inside information.

名詞

lowdown (uncountable)

1. inside information, the story or truth.

   Synonyms: scoop, dirt, dope, straight dope, poop

   All the reporters hoped to be the first to get the lowdown on the celebrity's marriage plans.

   here's the lowdown

   to give somebody the lowdown

2. A lowlife, a despicable person.

形容詞

lowdown (comparative more lowdown, superlative most lowdown)

1. Unfair; shameful.

   lowdown tactics