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down and dirty, adv. and int. colloq. (orig. and chiefly N. Amer.).
Brit. |ˌdaʊn (ə)n(d) ˈdəːti|, U.S. |ˈdaʊn ən ˈdərdi|
Forms: 19– down and dirty, 19– down'n'dirty
[‹ down adv. + and conj.1 + dirty adj.]
A. adv. In a devious or surreptitious manner.
1959Washington Post 13 Sept. b12/3 Playing it down and dirty, the unscrupulous dealer will tuck the stock away in his own inventory and sell it only after a substantial rise. 1999Sports Illustr. (Electronic ed.) 22 Feb. We shot the movie down and dirty, with hidden cameras and wireless microphones.
B. int. Poker. Used to accompany the dealing of a final face-down card in seven-card stud and related games.
1960H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 159/2 Down and dirty, from the card game of poker where ‘down and dirty’ = the last card has been dealt, usu. face down on the table, and has not improved anyone's hand. 1987T. L. Clark Dict. Gambling & Gaming 68/2 Down and dirty, in seven-card stud, said of the last, or seventh, card dealt, which is face down. 2000F. Renzulli Happy Wanderer in Sopranos (television shooting script) 2nd Ser. 31 The can is half filled with chips. Christopher retrieves, pours the chips on the desk. Sunshine. Down and dirty. He deals one last card to each, face down.
C. adj.
1.
a. Unprincipled, devious, viciously competitive; employing ruthless or aggressive tactics. Cf. dirty adj. 2b.
1960H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 159/2 Down and dirty, done to one's disadvantage; accomplished through trickery or deception. 1969N.Y. Times 23 July 45/3 It was the disaffected and alienated who wrote the political story of 1968. It was they, up and clean or down and dirty, who toppled Lyndon B. Johnson. 1976Washington Post 17 Oct. d4/4 The only thing down and dirty about them this time will be the fight for first place among Denver, Detroit and Chicago. 1989Atlanta Constit. 5 June e2 (caption) We really ought to get down and dirty with these developers who are disrespectful of the property. 2000Guardian 4 Jan. i. 11/1 After months of buildup, the political contest to succeed Bill Clinton as United States president at last gets down and dirty this week.
b. Unrefined; frank or explicit with regard to subjects considered disturbing or unpleasant.
1985N.Y. Times Mag. 5 May ii. 46 Crab feasting is a down-and-dirty operation that requires dozens of paper napkins, large bibs, tablecloths made from brown paper or plastic shower curtains, wooden mallets, [etc.]. 1986E. E. Scharff Worldly Power xii. 208 Cony had no one on hand who could write a ‘down-and-dirty’ column about Wall Street. 1987R. Shilts And Band played On (1988) ii. iv. 39 They didn't teach these things when Selma was in medical school in the 1940s, but she quickly learned the down-and-dirty realities about enteric diseases. 1996Sunday Tel. 13 Oct. 10/6 There are..photographs of beggars and other aspects of street life, although it has been praised as ‘avoiding many of the traps of latter day down-and-dirty street documentary work’. 2001N.Y. Times 23 July c10/1 Some television critics and fans of the network are all but apopleptic [sic] at its decision to add down-and-dirty fare like ‘Fear Factor’ and ‘Spy TV’, both hit reality shows this summer, to its higher-toned entertainment.
2. Raunchy, sexually provocative; (esp. of music) sensual. Cf. dirty adj. 2a.
1970(title of film) Down and dirty. 1972N.Y. Times 3 Sept. ii. 19 (advt.) This new album includes some of the most down and dirty R&B music around. 1986Los Angeles Times (Electronic ed.) 10 Aug. Most of the other songs these days are telling the kids to really get down and dirty... They're saying stuff like, ‘Baby I love you and want to do this and that to you and you can do this to me.’ 1995GQ Jan. 36/4 If The Ones You Do had a soundtrack, it wouldn't feature feel-good Cajun tunes, but evil crawling swamp rock and hard-core country. The Ones You Do is unquestionably the down-and-dirty read of the year. 1999in D. Littlejohn Real Las Vegas 234, I enjoyed doing what I did on stage, I was real. I could be raunchy, down and dirty, and guys would throw money at me. |