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{ "categories": [ "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English phrasal verbs", "English phrasal verbs formed with \"down\"", "English verbs", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries" ], "forms": [ { "form": "thumbs down", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "thumbing down", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "thumbed down", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "thumbed down", "tags": [ "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "*" }, "expansion": "thumb down (third-person singular simple present thumbs down, present participle thumbing down, simple past and past participle thumbed down)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "related": [ { "word": "thumb a lift" }, { "word": "thumb a ride" } ], "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English terms with quotations", "English terms with usage examples" ], "examples": [ { "text": "I was stranded in the middle of nowhere, but luckily I managed to thumb down a passing car.", "type": "example" }, { "ref": "1969, Kris Kristofferson, Fred Foster, “Me and Bobby McGee”:", "text": "Bobby thumbed a diesel down, just before it rained / It rode us all the way to New Orleans'", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "to get (a passing vehicle) to stop and give one a ride, signalling to the driver by holding out one's thumb (as a hitchhiker)" ], "links": [ [ "hitchhiker", "hitchhiker" ] ] }, { "glosses": [ "to disapprove or reject" ], "links": [ [ "disapprove", "disapprove" ], [ "reject", "reject" ] ] } ], "word": "thumb down" }
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