COUNT DOWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does count down mean? 

• COUNT DOWN (verb)
  The verb COUNT DOWN has 1 sense:

1. count backwards; before detonating a bomb, for example

  Familiarity information: COUNT DOWN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COUNT DOWN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Count backwards; before detonating a bomb, for example

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "count down" is one way to...):

count (name or recite the numbers in ascending order)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

countdown (counting backward from an arbitrary number to indicate the time remaining before some event (such as launching a space vehicle))