put-down
noun
a landing of an aircraft.
putdown
-
a variation of
put-down.
Example Sentences
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That’s not a putdown of De La Salle, the school that once had a 12-year, 151-game winning streak and used to pummel Southern California schools.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2024
Rodrigo also topped our chart of the year's best singles with Good 4U - a pop-punk putdown worthy of Debbie Harry at her most sneery.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2021
Collins: That was a putdown that should not apply to earnest agnostics who have considered the evidence and still don’t find an answer.
From Scientific American ● May 20, 2020
Twitter is good for witty banter; the lapidary concision of a tweet makes any putdown seem brutally decisive.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 23, 2019
For each insult or putdown, a question for a witness under oath.
From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2017
