Usually means: Engage in a competitive challenge.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. throw down: Merriam-Webster
  2. throw down: Collins English Dictionary
  3. throw-down: Wordnik
  4. throw-down, throw down: Wiktionary
  5. throw-down: Dictionary.com
  6. Throw Down (album), Throw Down (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. throw-down, throw down: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. throw down: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Throw Down: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Throw Down: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. throw down: Idioms

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

Definitions from Wiktionary (throw down)

verb:  (transitive) To cause something one is holding to drop, often forcefully.
verb:  (transitive, dated) To destroy or demolish.
verb:  (slang, idiomatic, transitive) To produce or perform (something) admirably or forcefully.
verb:  (slang, idiomatic, intransitive, by extension) To accomplish or produce something in a grand, respectable, or successful manner; to "represent".
verb:  (slang, idiomatic, intransitive) To drink a large amount quickly.
verb:  (slang, idiomatic, intransitive) To fight; to make a stand.
verb:  (slang, idiomatic, intransitive) To make an individual contribution to a group effort (e.g. money pool, collaborative record album).

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