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Dirt
Dirt is unclean matter, especially when in contact with a person’s clothes, skin or possessions when they are said to become dirty. Common types of dirt include:
dust — a general powder of organic or mineral matter
filth — foul matter such as excrement
grime — a black, ingrained dust such as soot
soil — the mix of clay, sand, and humus which lies on top of bedrock
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Dirt (noun)
Soil or earth.
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Dirt (noun)
A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance, filth
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Dirt (noun)
Previously unknown facts, or the invented “facts”, about a person; gossip; kompromat
“The reporter uncovered the dirt on the businessman by going undercover.”
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Dirt (noun)
Meanness; sordidness.
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Dirt (noun)
In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
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Dirt (noun)
freckles
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Dirt (verb)
To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty
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Dirty (adjective)
Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime.
“Despite a walk in the rain, my shoes weren’t too dirty.”
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Dirty (adjective)
That makes one unclean; corrupting, infecting.
“Don’t put that in your mouth, dear. It’s dirty.”
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Dirty (adjective)
Morally unclean; obscene or indecent, especially sexually.
“At the reception, Uncle Nick got drunk and told dirty jokes to the bridesmaids.”
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Dirty (adjective)
Dishonourable; violating accepted standards or rules.
“He might have scored, but it was a dirty trick that won him the penalty.”
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Dirty (adjective)
Corrupt, illegal, or improper.
“I won’t accept your dirty money!”
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Dirty (adjective)
Out of tune.
“You need to tune that guitar: the G string sounds dirty.”
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Dirty (adjective)
Of color, discolored by impurities.
“The old flag was a dirty white.”
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Dirty (adjective)
Containing data needing to be written back to memory or disk.
“Occasionally it reads the sector into a dirty buffer, which means it needs to sync the dirty buffer first.”
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Dirty (adjective)
Carrying illegal drugs among one’s possessions or inside of one’s bloodstream.
“None of y’all get into my car if you’re dirty.”
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Dirty (adjective)
Used as an intensifier, especially in conjunction with “great”.
“He lives in a dirty great mansion.”
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Dirty (adjective)
Sleety; gusty; stormy.
“dirty weather”
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Dirty (adverb)
In a dirty manner.
“to play dirty”
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Dirty (verb)
To make (something) dirty.
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Dirty (verb)
To stain or tarnish (somebody) with dishonor.
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Dirty (verb)
To debase by distorting the real nature of (something).
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Dirty (verb)
To become soiled.
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Dirty (adjective)
covered or marked with an unclean substance
“a tray of dirty cups and saucers”
“her boots were dirty”
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Dirty (adjective)
causing a person or place to become unclean
“farming is a hard, dirty job”
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Dirty (adjective)
(of a nuclear weapon) producing considerable radioactive fallout.
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Dirty (adjective)
(of an activity) dishonest; dishonourable
“he had a reputation for dirty dealing”
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Dirty (adjective)
using illegal drugs.
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Dirty (adjective)
used to emphasize one’s disgust for someone or something
“you dirty rat!”
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Dirty (adjective)
concerned with sex in a lewd or obscene way
“he told a stream of dirty jokes”
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Dirty (adjective)
(of weather) rough, stormy, and unpleasant.
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Dirty (adjective)
(of a colour) not bright or pure; dull
“the sea was a waste of dirty grey”
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Dirty (adjective)
(of popular music) having a distorted or rasping tone
“Nirvana’s dirty guitar sound”
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Dirty (adverb)
used for emphasis
“a dirty great slab of stone”
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Dirty (verb)
make dirty
“she didn’t like him dirtying her nice clean towels”