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down the house

down the house is the alternative form of the house down.

Meaning of the house down

Adverb

the house down (not comparable)

  1. (drag slang) Used as an intensifier: very, to a great degree; exceptionally.
    • Hello-tis, it's Jorgeous! This spicy Latina dancing diva started drag at the age of 16 and never looked back. A fierce performer who was born to do drag, Jorgeous is looking to dance the house down boots all the way to the top.2021 December 2, Raffy Ermac, “Meet the Sickening Queens of 'RuPaul's Drag Race' Season 14”, in Out

Questions about down the house

What is down the house the alternative form of?
Down the house is the alternative form of the house down.

Words near down the house in the dictionary

  1. down the banks
  2. down the cludgie
  3. down the drain
  4. down the gurgler
  5. down the hatch
  6. down the house
  7. down the khazi
  8. down the line
  9. down the middle
  10. down the pan
  11. down the plughole

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Adapted from Wiktionary: down the house (page history and authors); the house down (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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