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  • curprev 16:5416:54, 8 December 2022Equinox talk contribs 3,740 bytes +331 # {{lb|en|UK|slang|obsolete}} A sixpence. #* '''1859''', ''Snowden's magistrates assistant'' (page 90) #*: The price of a case (five shillings piece bad) from the smasher is about one shilling; an alderman (two and sixpence) about sixpence; a peg (shilling) about threepence; a '''downer''' or sprat (sixpence) about twopence. undo

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  • curprev 01:2001:20, 12 April 2021Equinox talk contribs 3,370 bytes +229 ===Etymology 2=== Perhaps related to {{m|en|tanner||sixpence}}. ====Noun==== {{en-noun}} # {{lb|en|UK|slang|obsolete}} A sixpence. =====References===== * '''1873''', John Camden Hotten, ''The Slang Dictionary'' undo

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  • curprev 19:4719:47, 23 February 2020Equinox talk contribsm 3,190 bytes +165 →‎Noun: #* '''2010''', Nicole LaPorte, ''The Men Who Would Be King'' #*: Geffen had never understood why such a '''downer''' of a film was being released over the holidays. undo
  • curprev 19:4419:44, 23 February 2020Equinox talk contribs 3,025 bytes +516 # A form of industrial action in which workers down tools and refuse to work. #* C. T. B. Smith, ‎Great Britain. Dept. of Employment, ''Manpower Papers'' (issue 15, page 158) #*: In the Workplace Industrial Relations Survey, a strike may be a '''downer''' or a stoppage as defined by the Department. #* '''1985''', Alex Callinicos, ‎Mike Simons, ''The Great Strike: The Miners' Strike of 1984-5 and Its Lessons'' #*: Cowley experienced a rash of ''''downers'''' — short, sharp, unofficial undo

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