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Throw_down vs Overthrow - What's the difference?

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Throw_down is a related term of overthrow.


As verbs the difference between throw_down and overthrow

is that throw_down is (literal sense) to cause something one is holding to drop, often forcefully or throw_down can be (slang|idiomatic|transitive) to produce or perform (something) admirably or forcefully while overthrow is to throw down to the ground, to overturn or overthrow can be (intransitive) to throw (something) so that it goes too far.

As a noun overthrow is

a removal, especially of a ruler or government, by force or threat of force or overthrow can be (sports) a throw that goes too far.

throw_down

English

Etymology 1

Literal.

Verb

  • (literal sense) to cause something one is holding to drop, often forcefully.
    • The soldiers threw down their weapons and surrendered.

    Etymology 2

    US, popularized 1990s in street culture, from idiom , used in sense “to fight, to incite a fight, to make a stand”. Sense of “accomplish something respectable” evolved from sense “to make a stand, to exhibit, to demonstrate (in a challenging way)” inherent in the fighting sense. Sense of “to make a contribution” likely influenced by sense “to make a stand”, as in “are you in?”, “will you stand up and contribute?”

    Verb

  • (slang, idiomatic, transitive) to produce or perform (something) admirably or forcefully.
  • * 2001 , Dave Thompson, Funk , back cover:
    • ...this guide tracks the artists and recordings that throw down the funk!
  • * 2004 , Kylie Adams, Ex-Girlfriends , page 48:
    • “Punch up the rhymes. Throw down some beats. Show off that body. You'll be unstoppable.”
  • (slang, idiomatic, intransitive) to fight, incite to fight, or approach with the intent to fight; to make a stand.
  • * 2002 , Lory Janelle Dance, Tough Fronts: The Impact of Street Culture on Schooling , page 60:
    • Let's you and me 'throw down' right here, right now!
  • * 2004 , William Bowers, "I Think I'm Going to Hell", in Da Capo Best Music Writing 2004 , page 41:
    • When someone near me at a show called the band My Boring Racket, I was ready to throw down , but for the good sense of an accompanying female...
  • * 2004 , , page 59:
    • Today's young and hip black male who fancies himself a radical, who is ready to throw down for the cause, is not talking about neo-colonialism, about global struggle.
  • * 2006 , Erick S. Gray, Nasty Girls: An Urban Novel , page 32:
    • She said no words and was the first to throw down . She stepped up to Dee, and pow!
  • * 2006 , Sherman D. Manning, Blue-Eyed Blonde , page 345:
    • The time has come. I'm ready to take action . I wanna kick ass and take names later. I wanna throw down , baby boy and baby girl.
  • (slang, idiomatic, intransitive) (by extension) to accomplish or produce something in a grand, respectable, or successful manner; to "represent".
  • * 1997 , Richard C. Green, Soul: Black Power, Politics, and Pleasure , page 93:
    • Yeah, they could literally throw down . When their sound came out, it was earth-shaking.
  • * 1998 , Sheila Copeland, Chocolate Star , page 260:
    • “You're performing for the who's who of radio and records at the Soul Train Awards tonight and you've got to throw down ”.
  • * 2005 , J. Anthony White, The Class Conscious Crew: S.W.A. , page ?:
    • ...she wouldn't mind marrying a man with some serious bank and able to sho-nuf throw-down in the bedroom!
  • (slang, idiomatic, intransitive) to make an individual contribution to a group effort (e.g. money pool, collaborative record album)
    • ''"We're goin' in on a pizza; you in?" "Yea, I'll throw down ."
  • (slang, idiomatic, intransitive) to drink a large amount of beer quickly.
    • ''"We need to finish these five pitchers in half an hour, so throw down as fast as you can!"
    Related terms
    * throwdown, throw-down * throw down the gauntlet

    See also

    * bring it * throw up

    Anagrams

    * English phrasal verbs

    overthrow

    English

    Etymology 1

    From .

    Verb

  • To throw down to the ground, to overturn.
  • * 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , John II:
    • And he made a scourge of smale cordes, and drave them all out off the temple, bothe shepe and oxen, and powred doune the changers money, and overthrue their tables.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • His wife overthrew the table.
  • To bring about the downfall of (a government, etc.), especially by force.
    • I hate the current government, but not enough to want to overthrow them.
  • * Dryden
    • When the walls of Thebes he overthrew .
  • * Shakespeare
    • [Gloucester] that seeks to overthrow religion.
    Derived terms
    * overthrowal

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A removal, especially of a ruler or government, by force or threat of force.
  • *
    • What then must we do? Why, work night and day, body and soul, for the overthrow of the human race!
    Hypernyms
    * (removal by force) downfall
    Coordinate terms
    * (removal by force) collapse

    Etymology 2

    Verb

  • (intransitive) To throw (something) so that it goes too far.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (sports) A throw that goes too far.
    • He overthrew first base, for an error.
  • (cricket) A run scored by the batting side when a fielder throws the ball back to the infield, whence it continues to the opposite outfield.

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