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Meaning of thumb down | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. 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)
  2. to disapprove or reject

Examples

“I was stranded in the middle of nowhere, but luckily I managed to thumb down a passing car.”
“Bobby thumbed a diesel down, just before it rained / It rode us all the way to New Orleans'”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

thumb one's nose thumb through thumbed thumbed a ride thumbed down thumbed one's nose

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