Meaning of the lowdown in English
(Definition of the lowdown from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
lowdown | American Dictionary
Examples of the lowdown
the lowdown
To avoid the need for priming, the pump is always mounted low-down, either submerged or around the level of the oil in the sump.
The term gutbucket came from playing a lowdown style of music.
Justice for all was a principle they understood and believed in; but by all they did not perhaps really mean persons low-down and no good.
Placing the oil pump low-down uses a near-vertical drive shaft, driven by helical skew gears from the camshaft.
Because of the layout of the gearbox, the layshaft is normally mounted low-down in the gearbox casing below the other shafts.
The album commonly features the words stank and smell in their blues definition to mean low-down, blunt, pungent: a measure of authenticity.
Second, the low-down, centralized driving position makes extreme precision maneuvers easier to perform, while lying prone reduces the risk of injury a driver faces when making these maneuvers.
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