Talk:go downtown

Police Arrest

2. To go to prison; to be arrested. John went downtown after being caught drunk driving. [1] --Geographyinitiative (talk) 23:55, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

RFV discussion: March–May 2022

This entry has survived Wiktionary's verification process (permalink).

Please do not re-nominate for verification without comprehensive reasons for doing so.

---

go downtown

Rfv-sense, removed out-of-process by an anon. —Svārtava (t/u) • 17:38, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

The same anon has been at work again. I wouldn't have a clue, the whole entry is American English. DonnanZ (talk) 08:14, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

I think the "police custody" sense is iffy as well; downtown itself means "the police station," (in this context) so phrases like "take him downtown" and "we're going downtown" refer to being taken or going to the police station. If someone was taken into custody but not taken to the police station (e.g. put in the back of a cruiser temporarily but then released) that would not be "going downtown." That makes it seem to me like the definition is inaccurate, and "go downtown" in this sense is non-idiomatic. It is slightly confounded by the fact that "downtown" can also mean other civic institutions, like city hall. - TheDaveRoss 13:39, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

cited Kiwima (talk) 00:45, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 23:23, 9 May 2022 (UTC)