down-down

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Noun

down-down (plural down-downs)

1. (slang) Among the Hash House Harriers, a penalty in which an individual must down his or her drink.
   • 1987, Susan Scott-Stevens, Foreign Consultants and Counterparts, page 81:

     Exceptions are made for children and non-beer drinking Indonesians — their down-downs are allowed to be made with water or soft drinks.

   • 2003 November, Skiing, volume 56, number 3, page 117:

     To be sentenced to a down-down is to be made to chug a beverage (you don't have to drink alcohol to belong anymore).