Lowdown

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Far down in the social scale; degraded; mean.
  • noun. A ravine, or gully, such as is frequented by the sea-elephant of California.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. of the most contemptible kind; contemptible; mean; base; vile; -- of people or the actions of people.
  • adjective. having the soulful feeling of early blues; -- of jazz.
  • noun. true confidential information.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The story or truth; the scoop or dirt.
  • adjective. Unfair; shameful.
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  • adjective. (of jazz) having the soulful feeling of early blues
  • adjective. of the most contemptible kind
  • noun. slang terms for inside information
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    "When MTV News had the chance to chat with QT recently, we had to get the lowdown from the man himself."
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