Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Black dirt or soot, especially such dirt clinging to or ingrained in a surface.
- transitive verb To cover with black dirt or soot; begrime.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Foul matter; dirt; soil; foulness, especially of a surface; smuttiness.
- To cover with dirt; soil; befoul; begrime.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Foul matter; dirt, rubbed in; sullying blackness, deeply ingrained.
- transitive verb To sully or soil deeply; to dirt.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Dirt ,grease , soot, etc. that isingrained and difficult to remove. - noun music A genre of
urban music that emerged inLondon , England, in the early 2000s, primarily a development of UK garage,dancehall , andhip hop . - verb To
begrime ; to cake with dirt
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the state of being covered with unclean things
- verb make soiled, filthy, or dirty
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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That tarnish, sweat and grime is part of its history.
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Nevermind that he was sweating buckets and covered in grime having just been to a hell of a scuffle involving a shrieking demon of a chav bride armed with a broken wine glass … Mind that kettle son – you could burn someone and i might not get my next pip. on July 3, 2009 at 8: 33 pm MarkUK
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She wore a bright yellow apron covered in grime and pizza toppings, and dried sarcasm stained her red sleeves.
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"'Ow dirty I am, bein' around the w'y I 'ave," the woman said, as she sat down in a coffee-house, wiping the sleep and grime from the corners of her eyes.
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Spotting a gem through decades of kitchen grime is only the first step.
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This was an answer to the US rap scene and became known as grime: not songs so much as soundscapes to urban life – Dizzee's staccato patter against a backdrop of police sirens, ringtones, radio static and video games.
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Theater: Some of my old "partners in grime" from the down-and-dirty road are on the Internet:
Archive 2004-03-21 Michael Evans 2004
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Theater: Some of my old "partners in grime" from the down-and-dirty road are on the Internet:
View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2004
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Finally, walking in with his body covered with sweat and grime, is the same guy that has kept the clubbies late all spring.
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A dirty street, a sidewalk spotted with old chewing gum and grime, is a turnoff for shoppers.
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