Idioms
See dirty in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarydirty great/big
- (British English, informal) used to emphasize how large something is
- When I turned round he was pointing a dirty great gun at me.
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play dirty
- (informal) to behave or play a game in an unfair way
- We would have won if the other team hadn’t played dirty.
talk dirty
- (informal) to talk to somebody about sex in order to make them sexually excited
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