(informal, UK, idiom) To stop work, especially when taking industrial action.
In Coventry, 300 GMB members plan to down tools over long hours, bad management and a 50p-an-hour pay rise[.]
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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