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dirt - What does it mean?

Definition of 'dirt'

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • soil or earth
  • A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance
  • Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person; gossip
  • The reporter uncovered the dirt on the businessman by going undercover.
  • Meanness; sordidness.
  • * Melmoth
  • honours thrown away upon dirt and infamy
  • In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
  • Derived terms

    * dirt bike * dirt nap (rel-mid3) * dirty (rel-mid3) * do someone dirt (rel-bottom)

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (rare) To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty
  • Similar to 'dirt'

    dart, dort, drat, drott, derat, drait, dret, drytt, durt