Used in a sentence: Last Sunday my neighbour caught me Harunphing. Meaning: try to achieve something; Used in a sentence: Go on, have a crack at the. Used in a sentence: There were heaps of people down at the beach last weekend. What does Dick me down mean in Urban Dictionary?: the act of fucking a lady so very hard she actually is unable to get free from bed the second morning.
If you are down with something it means that you have knowledge of something or are in agreement with it. I'm down with science means 'I am familiar with science' or 'science is a good thing.' To be down with something is a slang phrase, and not terribly common in formal speech or writing.
You could also speak of having a disease, sometimes preceded by the verb to come if the sickness hasn't yet fully taken hold. I am coming down with a cold. Or She is down with the flu.
To be up with something is only used in the imperitive, eg. Up with the king! — meaning hey, that king is pretty great. Or: up with ice cream!
Ice Cream!) You would never say I am up with something. That wouldn't be proper english. Although you could say I am up to something, you sneaky little devil, you. (In case it's not clear, 'I am up to something' means 'I have an ulterior motive I don't wish to reveal.' ) If you are addressing someone directly who is presently seated, you could use a command: up with you! Other than a literal interpretation I am down/up here with a hammer (and this would be rather questionable with regards to grammar), 'down with' is slang for a handful of subtly different meanings. I am down with subject.
I am down with person. I am down with that. I am down with location.
More often than not, these mean 'I am in agreement with' but the type of object matters quite a bit. I am interested in and think this subject is cool. I really like that person. (Platonically.) I am ready for that / I can do that / Let's go do that I like this location / That location is good I am not familiar with 'I am up with'.
It would not surprise me to hear someone using it as a slang version of 'I am down with' for emphasis. 'I am so down I am up.' More commonly, both phrases can be used with 'for' in place of 'with': I am down for some pizza I am up for a movie. Stating that you are 'down for that' appears to be a relatively recent phrase coming from slang. It is common in chat rooms and other online social hangouts, but does not often appear in writing. It shocked me the first time I heard it (sometime in 2013, if I remember correctly). I thought the speaker was confused, at first, until I heard it repeated in different contexts and came to understand that 'up for that' and 'down for that' have approximately the same definition to most people.
Years ago (and the number of years is unclear to me) being 'down with something' had a different meaning on the street, or amongst those who were less. It meant that you were involved in something seedy, or had inside information on something. 'On the down low' shares some of the same connotation, where you are describing/referring to something out of the public eye, unknown to the wife/girlfriend, or otherwise a secret. Being 'down for that' implied not only that you agreed with someone, but that you would keep your involvement a secret. Conversely, being 'up for that' was an open acknowledgement of your agreement or participation; it was not private, and no secrecy was implied or conveyed. Because English is English, and slang moves into the mainstream if it gets enough attention, they now mean the same thing. It still makes me cringe when I hear it, however, just as I do when people use 'irregardless'.
. ‘Rory Hurley cracked home a vicious shot to give Pat's the lead.’. ‘They want to see the police ‘go in hard and crack some heads on the terraces’.’.
‘I realised he wasn't breathing, so I turned him over face down across my arm and cracked him really hard on his back a couple of times.’. ‘While I bent down the door swung to and cracked me hard on the forehead.’. ‘Willie Wilson then cracked in a shot, which Reid did brilliantly to tip over the bar to deny the Fifers.’. ‘And that's when I cracked him again, a sucker punch that knocked the wind out of him.’.
‘To give people in the town a fair crack of the whip, tickets will not be sold over the phone.’. ‘My concern is that there is a pot of money at the National Assembly and the south is getting a fair crack of the whip.’. ‘I want to give myself a fair hearing and as long as I get a fair crack of the whip, that's all I can hope for.’. ‘We want to be sure families having such a rough start do get a sure start and get a fair crack of the whip,’ said Mr Logan.’. ‘Men are not getting a fair crack of the whip, and I'm prepared to say so in court.’.
‘Religious services and ceremonies never strike Miss Manners as being as funny as they may be cracked up to be.’. ‘Sometimes you think about people in high position and you hope that are everything that they are supposed to be cracked up to be.’. ‘When I first bought the game I was apathetic about whether it would be everything it could be cracked up to be.’. ‘Not all of the offerings are all they may be cracked up to be.’. ‘I decide that being the boss is not all that it is suppose to be cracked up to be.’.
‘As far as U.K. Saviours go, the band aren't what they'll surely be cracked up to be.’. ‘I mean, granted the new stable BootCamp is all it's going to be cracked up to be.’. ‘The venture capital market in the States is not all that it may be cracked up to be.’. ‘Plea bargains are just not what they used to be cracked up to be.’. ‘Life as a Telephone Sales Representative, surprisingly, is not all it may be cracked up to be.’.
‘Between Paula having hysterics and Brad cracking on to Bessie - well, everything was a-buzz as you can imagine.’. ‘And it's true if I had a boyfriend; he probably would have a problem with another guy cracking on to me.’. ‘I was asking Adam what sex he thought this person was, when it turned around started cracking on to Adam.’.
‘Cracking on to single mothers seemed like a brilliant idea at the time.’. ‘The little tramps probably crack on to 31-year-olds all the time at their local suburban blue light disco.’.