Usually means: Insult intended to demean someone.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. put-down: Merriam-Webster
  2. put-down: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. put-down, put-down: Collins English Dictionary
  4. put-down: Vocabulary.com
  5. put-down: Wordnik
  6. put-down: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. put-down: Wiktionary
  8. put-down: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. put-down: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. put-down: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. put-down: Dictionary.com
  12. put-down: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. put-down: Rhymezone
  14. put-down: FreeDictionary.org
  15. put-down: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. put-down: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. put-down: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. put-down: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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noun:  An insult or barb; a snide or demeaning remark.

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