adjective, noun
adjective [onlybeforenoun] (informal) not fair or honest:
What a dirty, low-down trick!
noun (the low-down) [sing.] ~ on (sb/sth) (informal) the true facts about sb/sth, especially those considered most important to know:
Jane gave me the low-down on the other guests at the party.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for low-down is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does low-down appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — low-down appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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