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- noun Alternative spelling of
down low .
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Examples
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But it cannot be denied just how powerful media is -- just look how it bamboozled everyone into believing that the down-low is fueling HIV/AIDS in black America.
Kellee Terrell: Why the Porn Industry's HIV Problem Is Our Problem, Too Kellee Terrell 2010
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True to character, Auggie keeps the relationship on the down-low, but Annie eventually finds out in what Gorham calls an "awesome scene."
Covert Affairs' Chris Gorham on Auggie's New Girlfriend: It's a Very Complicated Relationship 2011
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It's because African Americans don't address the homophobic role some Black churches play in creating a "down-low" DL culture -- not only among its worshipers but also among its "down low" ministers who espouse damning messages about homosexuality -- that both Bishop Eddie Long and Pastor Donnie McClurkin can tell their truths.
Irene Monroe: In "Hot-Lanta" You Stay "in the Closet" as CNN's Don Lemon Did Irene Monroe 2011
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But it cannot be denied just how powerful media is -- just look how it bamboozled everyone into believing that the down-low is fueling HIV/AIDS in black America.
Kellee Terrell: Why the Porn Industry's HIV Problem Is Our Problem, Too Kellee Terrell 2010
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But it cannot be denied just how powerful media is -- just look how it bamboozled everyone into believing that the down-low is fueling HIV/AIDS in black America.
Kellee Terrell: Why the Porn Industry's HIV Problem Is Our Problem, Too Kellee Terrell 2010
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It's because African Americans don't address the homophobic role some Black churches play in creating a "down-low" DL culture -- not only among its worshipers but also among its "down low" ministers who espouse damning messages about homosexuality -- that both Bishop Eddie Long and Pastor Donnie McClurkin can tell their truths.
Irene Monroe: In "Hot-Lanta" You Stay "in the Closet" as CNN's Don Lemon Did Irene Monroe 2011
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Maybe it's the timing: All this workload resentment comes at a point when real-life husbands are at an all-time down-low, be it sex-tweeting twexting? congressmen or international bankers accused of preying on hotel maids.
Tom Matlack: NYT Calls Men "Lazy" Tom Matlack 2011
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The down-low on Davos is that the really exciting events – the soirees, the nightcaps, the endless-discussion dinners – happen after 10 p.m., like in a college dorm.
Davos: The Global Village and the Local Community Eboo Patel 2011
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Men who are also on the “down-low” and giving AIDS to their women.
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But it cannot be denied just how powerful media is -- just look how it bamboozled everyone into believing that the down-low is fueling HIV/AIDS in black America.
Kellee Terrell: Why the Porn Industry's HIV Problem Is Our Problem, Too Kellee Terrell 2010
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