"do the dirty on" meaning in English

See do the dirty on in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Audio: EN-AU ck1 do the dirty on.ogg [Australia], En-au-do the dirty on.ogg [Australia] Forms: does the dirty on [present, singular, third-person], doing the dirty on [participle, present], did the dirty on [past], done the dirty on [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|do<does,,did,done> the dirty on}} do the dirty on (third-person singular simple present does the dirty on, present participle doing the dirty on, simple past did the dirty on, past participle done the dirty on)
  1. (idiomatic, transitive, UK, Australia, informal) To treat (someone) in an unfair manner; to cheat or betray. Tags: Australia, UK, idiomatic, informal, transitive Synonyms: do someone dirty
    Sense id: en-do_the_dirty_on-en-verb-5hsFX3CT Categories (other): Australian English, British English, English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for do the dirty on meaning in English (2.0kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "does the dirty on",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "doing the dirty on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "did the dirty on",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "done the dirty on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "do<does,,did,done> the dirty on"
      },
      "expansion": "do the dirty on (third-person singular simple present does the dirty on, present participle doing the dirty on, simple past did the dirty on, past participle done the dirty on)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Australian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To treat (someone) in an unfair manner; to cheat or betray."
      ],
      "id": "en-do_the_dirty_on-en-verb-5hsFX3CT",
      "links": [
        [
          "treat",
          "treat"
        ],
        [
          "unfair",
          "unfair"
        ],
        [
          "cheat",
          "cheat"
        ],
        [
          "betray",
          "betray"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, transitive, UK, Australia, informal) To treat (someone) in an unfair manner; to cheat or betray."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "do someone dirty"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "UK",
        "idiomatic",
        "informal",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "EN-AU ck1 do the dirty on.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/66/EN-AU_ck1_do_the_dirty_on.ogg/EN-AU_ck1_do_the_dirty_on.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/EN-AU_ck1_do_the_dirty_on.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-au-do the dirty on.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a9/En-au-do_the_dirty_on.ogg/En-au-do_the_dirty_on.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/En-au-do_the_dirty_on.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AUS)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "do the dirty on"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "does the dirty on",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "doing the dirty on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "did the dirty on",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "done the dirty on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "do<does,,did,done> the dirty on"
      },
      "expansion": "do the dirty on (third-person singular simple present does the dirty on, present participle doing the dirty on, simple past did the dirty on, past participle done the dirty on)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Australian English",
        "British English",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To treat (someone) in an unfair manner; to cheat or betray."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "treat",
          "treat"
        ],
        [
          "unfair",
          "unfair"
        ],
        [
          "cheat",
          "cheat"
        ],
        [
          "betray",
          "betray"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, transitive, UK, Australia, informal) To treat (someone) in an unfair manner; to cheat or betray."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "UK",
        "idiomatic",
        "informal",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "EN-AU ck1 do the dirty on.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/66/EN-AU_ck1_do_the_dirty_on.ogg/EN-AU_ck1_do_the_dirty_on.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/EN-AU_ck1_do_the_dirty_on.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-au-do the dirty on.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a9/En-au-do_the_dirty_on.ogg/En-au-do_the_dirty_on.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/En-au-do_the_dirty_on.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AUS)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "do someone dirty"
    }
  ],
  "word": "do the dirty on"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.