downriver
down ri ver
- r away from the source or with the current
- It was the second murder of the day, coming after a man was robbed and then shot in the Faubourg Marigny, a nightlife neighborhood downriver from the French Quarter.
- Flood waters that have already ravaged many cities are moving downriver toward the already swollen Mississippi, threatening still more communities.
- London and New York, by contrast, politely hide their tattooed seafarers' muscle out of sight, downriver or on the Jersey shore.