meaning of dirt
1. Any foul of filthy substance, as excrement, mud, dust, etc. ; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth; as, a wagonload of dirt.
2. Meanness; sordidness.
3. In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc. , before washing.
4. To make foul of filthy; to dirty.
5. Dirt Design In Real Time dirtball XEROX PARC A small, perhaps struggling outsider; not in the major or even the minor leagues. For example, "Xerox is not a dirtball company". Outsiders often observe in the PARC culture an institutional arrogance which usage of this term exemplifies. The brilliance and scope of PARCs contributions to computer science have been such that this superior attitude is not much resented. - ESR [Jargon File]
6. disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people
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