dirty

Definitions

General English

• adjective not clean
• adjective not honest, or not done according to the rules
• verb to make something dirty.

Slang

• adjective annoyed, resentful. In this sense the word is often used in the phrase ‘to be dirty on (someone)’.
• adjective excellent. A vogue word in club culture since 2000 by analogy with bad, brutal, etc. Filthy is a synonym. ‘It refers to dance music considered so exciting it’s positively rude, as used by DJ Brandon Block’.

Wine

• used to describe an unpleasant smell that can occur in a wine, including one caused by a bad barrel or cork, and normally a sign of poor winemaking

Nearby Definitions of “dirty”

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• discharge
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Contexts for “dirty”

6 definitions in context
• General English
• Slang
• Wine