"do someone dirty" meaning in All languages combined

See do someone dirty on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Audio: en-au-do someone dirty.ogg [Australia] Forms: does someone dirty [present, singular, third-person], doing someone dirty [participle, present], did someone dirty [past], done someone dirty [participle, past], do someone dirt [alternative]
Head templates: {{en-verb|<does,,did,done>}} do someone dirty (third-person singular simple present does someone dirty, present participle doing someone dirty, simple past did someone dirty, past participle done someone dirty)
  1. (informal) To deliberately treat someone in an unfair or harmful manner. Tags: informal Related terms: dirty business, play for a fool Translations (to deliberately treat someone in an unfair or harmful manner): hacer una jugarreta (Spanish), jugársela (Spanish), jugárselas (Spanish), malear (Spanish), malearse dejar feo (Spanish), dejar fresco (Spanish), phản bội (Vietnamese), phản phúc (Vietnamese), phản trắc (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-do_someone_dirty-en-verb-XrUSlO9M Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Vietnamese translations Synonyms: do the dirty on, double-cross, stab in the back, assfuck [Canada, US, vulgar], betray, burn [slang], cop out [idiomatic, slang], cross out [slang], cross up [Canada, US], double-cross, do someone dirty, do the dirty on [Australia, UK, idiomatic], false [obsolete], go back on, knife, let down [idiomatic], play someone false, quisle [rare], renegade [dated], sell, sell the pass [Ireland, idiomatic], sell down the river [idiomatic], sell down [idiomatic], sell out, stab in the back, swike [dialectal, obsolete], traitorize, turncoat

Alternative forms

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