go downtown

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

go downtown (third-person singular simple present goes downtown, present participle going downtown, simple past went downtown, past participle gone downtown)

1. To be taken into custody at the police station.
2. (idiomatic, slang) To perform oral sex.

   Synonym: (transitive) go down on

   • 1998, Dialogue - Volumes 1-3, page 20:

     Rappin about going downtown on the kitty Let me do you and I won't cum too soon.

   • 2016, David James, Love and Sex at the Post Office:

     Go downtown on her for an oral dessert.

   • 2017, Melisa Karpinske, Twelve Rounds With Cancer & Life, page 54:

     You see my mistress needs new sexy lingerie and a VACATION TO A REMOTE ISLAND FAR FROM THE CITY where my wife resides. I must provide this for her, because, she goes downtown on me.

   • 2018, Pamela Ann, The Chasing Series:

     Are these normal reactions to your still-hot looking ex? I suppose so. I mean, it was merely a month ago since that mouth went downtown on my body.

3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go,‎ downtown.

Further reading

• Eric Partridge (2005) “go downtown”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 1 (A–I), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 884.
• “go downtown v.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present