Usually means: Temporarily incapacitated or decisively defeated.
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  1. down for the count: Merriam-Webster
  2. down for the count: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. down for the count: Wiktionary
  4. Down for the Count (EP), Down for the Count (album), Down for the Count: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. down for the count: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. down for the count: Legal dictionary

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Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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  1. down for the count: Idioms

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  1. down for the count: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (down for the count)

adjective:  (idiomatic) Decisively beaten; defeated; rendered irrelevant for the long term.
adjective:  (figurative) Unconscious or sound asleep.

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