Throw-down Definition

noun

(slang) A fight or brawl; or, a challenge or incitement to fight.

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(slang) A weapon planted at a crime scene in order to mislead investigation.

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verb

(literal sense) To cause something one is holding to drop, often forcefully.

The soldiers threw down their weapons and surrendered.

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(slang, idiomatic) To produce or perform (something) admirably or forcefully.

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(slang, idiomatic, intransitive) To fight, incite to fight, or approach with the intent to fight; to make a stand.

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(slang, idiomatic, intransitive) (by extension) To accomplish or produce something in a grand, respectable, or successful manner; to "represent".

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(slang, idiomatic, intransitive) To make an individual contribution to a group effort (eg. money pool, collaborative record album)

"We're goin' in on a pizza; you in?" "Yea, I'll throw down."

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Origin of Throw-down

US, popularized 1990s in street culture, from idiom throw down the gauntlet (“to issue a challenge”), used in sense “to fight, to incite a fight, to make a stand”.

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Sense of “accomplish something respectable” evolved from sense “to make a stand, to exhibit, to demonstrate (in a challenging way)” inherent in the fighting sense.

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Sense of “to make a contribution” likely influenced by sense “to make a stand”, as in “are you in?”, “while you stand up and contribute?”

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Evolved from the older idiom throw down the gauntlet.

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Literal.

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