a patch of grass, covered in dog dirt (=waste from a dog’s bowels)
满是狗屎的一小片草地
2TAS especially American EnglishAmEearth or soil (泥)土
Michael threw his handful of dirt onto the coffin.
迈克尔往棺材上撒了一把土。
in (the) dirt
The children had been sitting in the dirt.
这些孩子一直在泥地里坐着。
3informalKNOW something information about someone’s private life or activities which could give people a bad opinion of them if it became known 〔某人私生活的〕丑事,丑行
The newspapers had been digging up dirt on the president.
报纸一直在挖掘总统的丑事。
4.RUDE/OBSCENEtalk, writing, a film etc that is considered bad or immoral because it is about sex 下流话;下流文章;色情电影
something shows the dirt (=something looks dirty – used about colours)
Light-coloured clothes show the dirt rather quickly.
adjectives
loose dirt (=that you can brush off easily)
Keep your pack clean by brushing off any loose dirt after use.
ingrained dirt (=under the surface of something and difficult to clean off)
We had to wash the walls to remove the ingrained dirt.
ground-in dirt (=difficult to remove because people have walked over something )
He had a lot of trouble getting rid of the ground-in dirt from the carpet.
phrases
be covered with dirt
The kitchen floor was covered with dirt.
be black with dirt (=be very dirty)
Jack came in from the garden, his hands black with dirt.
a speck of dirt (=a very small piece of dirt)
Their house was so clean – there wasn’t a speck of dirt anywhere.
Examples from the Corpus
dirt• They live at the end of a dirt road.• The government was paying farmers fifteen cents a cubicyard to move dirt.• The hosewashed off something that was not dirt.• The film of steamcombined with the patina of dirt on the glass made them almost opaque.• The rooms were cleaned until every speck of dirt and grit was gone.• A quickride up a short but somewhat steepdirt road takes you to Mulholland Drive, known here as dirt Mulholland.• The kids were playing in the yard, digging in the dirt.• That way, enough bag was left to use as a flap to hold in the dirt.• He stabbed the brake, stabbed too hard, and his back wheelsslurred in the dirt.• Jack looked up and wiped a grubby hand wearily over his face, streaking the dirt still further.• She swept the dirt off the back porch.• Why is there dirt all over the back seat of the car?• The floor was covered with dirt.• He took off his glasses, which were covered with dirt.• Put the seeds in the pot and cover them with dirt.