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rundown

Definition

  • noun: a quick report about the main parts of something
  • noun: a play in baseball in which a base runner who is caught off base is chased by two or more opposing players who throw the ball from one to another in an attempt to tag the runner out
  • synonyms: bedraggled, tatterdemalion, dilapidated

Examples

  • They gave us a 'rundown' on/of the main points of the news.

  • a 'rundown' of/in our public services

  • He was caught in a 'rundown'.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) in a Taliban-controlled prison. - No wonder he's pissed at us. - it's the threat matrix. Every day the Secret Service does a rundown... ...of threats against the president. Every one of these guys was on it. It's like Walker used it as a shopping list. Sir, Delta Force is minutes out. (..)
    2013 White House Down