(law, finance) A payment representing a fraction of the price of something being purchased, made to secure the right to continue making payments towards that purchase.

(of a person) Undercover or lying about one's identity. / (African-American Vernacular, of a man) Purporting to be heterosexual while engaged in sex with men.

(transitive) To cause something or someone to pass from a higher to a lower place. / (cricket) To bowl. / (transitive, slang) To commit (someone) to a prison term.

(US, idiomatic, slang, euphemistic) In secret. / (US, idiomatic, slang, euphemistic) Secretly sleeping with someone other than one's partner.

A state of secrecy. / (sexuality) The state of being a man who secretly sleeps with people other than his partner.

To transmit in succession, as from father to son, or from predecessor to successor. / (law) To deliver (the decision of a court, etc.)

(of a person) Tired and exhausted. / (of a place) Decrepit. / (of a clockwork mechanism) Having the spring unwound.

Alternative form of run down

(idiomatic) Sad; lacking engagement or enthusiasm.

to pursue and apprehend someone or something. / (by extension) to investigate the cause of something