Meaning of dirt In English

• 0 dust, soil, or any substance that makes a surface not clean:

  • His coat was covered with dirt.

  • I've been digging in the dirt, planting seeds.

  • I got some dog dirt on my shoes.

• 1 unpleasant or bad details about someone's private life that are repeated or published to influence people's opinion of them in a negative way:

  • Journalists are always digging for (= trying to discover) dirt.

• 2 earth or a substance like it that has gotten on the surface of something such as your skin:

  • I sat on the ground and got dirt on my pants.

  • After the rain, the woods smelled of wet dirt and greenery.

  • The basement has a dirt floor.

• 3 personal information about something wrong that someone has done:

  • They are more interested in looking for dirt than in reporting fairly about him.