| dirty | |
| 1. adj. Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime. | |
| Despite a walk in the rain, my shoes weren't too dirty. | |
| 2. adj. That makes one unclean; corrupting, infecting. | |
| Don't put that in your mouth, dear. It's dirty. | |
| 3. adj. Morally unclean; obscene or indecent, especially sexually. | |
| At the reception, Uncle Nick got drunk and told dirty jokes to the bridesmaids. | |
| 4. adj. Dishonourable; violating accepted standards or rules. | |
| He might have scored, but it was a dirty trick that won him the penalty. | |
| 5. adj. Corrupt, illegal, or improper. | |
| I won't accept your dirty money! | |
| 6. adj. Out of tune. | |
| You need to tune that guitar: the G string sounds dirty. | |
| 7. adj. Of color, discolored by impurities. | |
| The old flag was a dirty white. | |
| 8. adj. (computing) 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. | |
| 9. adj. (slang) 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. | |
| 10. adj. (informal) (Used as an intensifier, especially in conjunction with "great".) | |
| He lives in a dirty great mansion. | |
| 11. adj. Sleety; gusty; stormy. | |
| dirty weather | |
| 12. adv. In a dirty manner. | |
| to play dirty | |
| 13. v. To make (something) dirty. | |
| 14. v. To stain or tarnish (somebody) with dishonor. | |
| 15. v. To debase by distorting the real nature of (something). | |
| 16. v. (intransitive) To become soiled. | |
