1. (meteorology and fire science) n. A lightning bolt that touches the ground or a grounded object, (a common cause of wildland fires). v. Touch the ground as a lightning bolt.
2. (typing, keyboarding, and music) n. The action of pressing a key on the keyboard of a typewriter or keyboard instrument. v. Strike a keyboard key. adj. The kind of typewriter that has a mechanical keyboard, which requires strong downstrikes upon the keys.
3. (warfare) n. A downward chopping attack in hand-to-hand melee or combat.
4. (music) n. A downward plucking motion on a stringed instrument. v. Pluck downward.
5. (music) proper noun; the name of at least three different newly formed garage bands in the eastern United States of America since 2002.
6. (geography and geology) n. A downward direction.
7. (sport fishing and fishing industry) n. A downward tug on a fishing line. v. Tug downward on a fishing line as a fish, or as a prank played upon a fellow fisherman who has fallen asleep.
8. (cyberculture) proper noun; me.
1. There's a smoke column where that downstrike hit.
2. I used to have a downstrike typewriter.
3. Comments mentioning downstrikes on the Internet used to be about using battle axes; now they're about using light sabers.
4. It's a note, not a chord; just downstrike.
5. With three bands named Downstrike, at least one of them should be good.
6. The fault is downstrike from the ridge.
7. That downstrike is what I'm waiting for.
8. Typewriters and rock bands come and go, but when you Google downstrike I'm at the top of the results.
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An author of some clever daffynitions.
AYB wrote daffynitions of we need to talk, tornado alley, valley girl, cult, Christianity, obese, freedom fries, and Life. Darn! Some duh-weeb removed some of his better ones.
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The most northern infection caused by spore cast from Los Angeles.
Don't go to Pelican Bay if you don't want to catch the Los Angeles infection.
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To repair returned merchandise. Not necessarily synonymous with refurbishing, depending on company policy.
We don't rebuild here, we just refurbish.
We don't call it refurbished unless it's rebuilt.
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Picture a mongrel putting its tail between its legs and peeing all over it and yelping, ki-yi, ki-yi, ki-yi off into the distance.
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All the sweetness of breath that you'd expect of a creature that eats carrion.
If your idea of a hot meal was pavement pizza warmed over on the asphalt solar griddle, you'd have buzzard breath too.
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1. Red-colored Mountain Dew product.
2. One of the earlier computer viruses that propagated both by email and over network connections.
Both of these came out shortly before 9/11 and the Anthrax scare, causing no end of confusion among duh-weebs and n00bs.
Normal, but technologically unprepared person: I was just sitting there drinking my Code Red (1) when Code Red (2) DLed and started spamming everybody in my address book.
Duh-weeb: I understand you got a Code Red infection, but did you spill it on the keyboard or the hard drive?
N00b: It's just scandalous that none of the doctors knew what I was talking about when I asked for inoculation against Code Red!
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