Definition of low-key
low-key 
adjective
- calm; restrained.
Citation from "The Cop", Reaper (TV, 2007), Season 1 Episode 8 blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.Last edited on Dec 20 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Dec 20 2010.
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Other terms relating to 'calm': | |
| Definitions include: to calm down or wait. | |
| Definitions include: very good, excellent, interesting, fun, etc. | |
| Definitions include: to be nonchalant. | |
| Definitions include: to calm down. | |
| Definitions include: to calm down. | |
Other terms relating to 'relaxing': | |
| Definitions include: to relax; "hang out". | |
| Definitions include: to relax, usually with other friends; "chill". | |
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Other terms relating to 'key': | |
| Definitions include: a tool with parts to puncture holes in cans, and to pry off bottle tops. | |
| Definitions include: great. | |
| Definitions include: a bump (small amount of a powdered drug) snorted off of a key. | |
| Definitions include: really wasted, drunk, high etc. | |
| Definitions include: nervous. | |
| Definitions include: vagina. | |
| Definitions include: phone number or digits. | |
| Definitions include: To lose one's virginity. | |
| Definitions include: something isn't right | |
| Definitions include: to play a musical instrument that has keys, such as a piano. | |
Other terms relating to 'low': | |
| Definitions include: DL is short for down-low, which basically means to keep things under-wraps, to keep a secret or lay low. | |
| Definitions include: To keep quiet. | |
| Definitions include: to have the zipper on one's trousers unzipped. | |
| Definitions include: to get a haircut. | |
| Definitions include: To have sex with a woman. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "Guardian Reader Of Low Intelligence in Ethnic Skirt", an insult used by doctors in the UK on medical charts. | |
| Definitions include: to hide. | |
| Definitions include: keep it a secret. | |
| Definitions include: Lower Alabama | |
| Definitions include: to hide. | |
| Definitions include: "Low Down Brother" refers to a bi-sexual male, specifically one who has oral sex with other men, but who is very hetero-sexual acting and dressing. | |
| Definitions include: to hide. | |
| Definitions include: someone who is high on marijuana who instead saying "I am high" they say the complete opposite of high, meaning they are very high. | |
| Definitions include: a session of communication that has little information relative to its time-length. | |
| Definitions include: a mean-spirited response. | |
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