DCHP-3

down below

Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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in or to central Canada or the Maritimes, usually Ontario (from the point of view of persons in the West and Northwest).

See: down East(def. 2)

Quotations

1884
Leap year surprise parties are quite the rage "down below" (we don't mean literally in warmer climate, but down East), in which the position of the sexes is reversed and the ladies get up the parties and go round and pick up the young gentlemen and select their partners afterwards at the dance.