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thumbed down

thumbed down is the simple past and past participle of thumb down.

Meaning of thumb down

Verb

thumb down (third-person singular simple present thumbs down, present participle thumbing down, simple past and past participle thumbed down)

  1. To get (a passing vehicle) to stop and give one a ride, signalling to the driver by holding out one's thumb (as a hitchhiker).
    • I was stranded in the middle of nowhere, but luckily I managed to thumb down a passing car.
  2. To disapprove or reject.

Questions about thumbed down

What is thumbed down the simple past and past participle of?
Thumbed down is the simple past and past participle of thumb down.

Words near thumbed down in the dictionary

  1. thumbable
  2. thumbboard
  3. thumbboards
  4. thumbed
  5. thumbed a ride
  6. thumbed down
  7. thumbed one's nose
  8. thumbed through
  9. Thumbelina
  10. Thumbelinas
  11. thumber

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thumbed down (page history and authors); thumb 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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