thumb down
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Rare form of thumbs down.
verb
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).
verb
To disapprove or reject.
Example Sentences
- "Exploiting a member's indecision are lobbyists who station themselves outside the House and Senate chambers and signal members with a thumb up or a thumb down."
- "The fact is that the reader is now just interested in a thumb up or thumb down from the critic. And that's no way to criticize theater."
- "They tell the story, the meta-story, of what happened when they opened the book and began to read the story. It’s not as sexy as a thumb up or a thumb down, but then again we’re suffering from a surfeit of thumbs."
- "The account shared pictures of the 44-year-old model wearing a $4,007 playsuit and asked whether it deserved a thumb up or a thumb down."
- "Overall, 59 percent give Trump a thumb down, while 40 percent approve of his job performance."
- "Marjorie Taylor Greene gives a thumb down as US President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address"