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throw down

verb

  1. intr
    1. to offer or accept a challenge to fight
    2. to fight


noun

  1. a challenge, esp to physical or artistic competition

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Example Sentences

School Lunches Booker is not afraid to throw down in the name of policy.

Tensions escalated when Fieri decided to throw down a gauntlet of his own on the Today show on Thursday morning.

Wowzie, zowie, that was quite a throw-down at McCain and Graham.

Did Bill Kristol and Charles Krauthammer and the folks at AEI lust for a huge philosophical throw down on Medicare solvency?

Even people who ordinarily shun slots and betting parlors throw down money to fill out office brackets.

And I will throw down your altars, and your idols shall be broken in pieces: and I will cast down your slain before your idols.

He'll immediately throw down his bunch of flowers and dive despairingly into the moat.

The foragers had hoops, also, but they were to throw down theirs, and to make their escape at the signal agreed on.

Thousands of Rebels throw down their arms and give themselves up as prisoners.

When you throw down with the thunderbolt what is strong, like brittle things, you fly across the terrible sea!

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