Dirt | Mean of dirt in English Dictionary

/ˈdɚt/

• Noun
• loose earth or soil
1. Pack dirt loosely around the base of the plant.
2. mounds/piles of dirt
• a substance (such as mud or dust) that makes things unclean
1. You've got some dirt on your face.
2. Their shoes were covered with dirt.
3. No amount of cleaning will get rid of all this dirt.
• a person or thing that has no value
1. He treated me like dirt. [=he treated me very badly]

• information about someone that could harm the person's reputation
1. She's been spreading dirt [=gossip] about her ex-husband.
2. He's been digging up dirt on his political rivals.
3. He seems to have written his memoirs mainly so that he can dish the dirt on all his former lovers.