Meaning

inside information, the story or truth..

Definitions by Sense

1. inside information, the story or truth.
2. A lowlife, a despicable person.
3. Unfair; scoundrelly; shameful.
4. seedy, sketchy, disreputable
5. down low; purporting to be heterosexual while engaged in sex with men.
6. Unfairly; dishonourably; in a deceitful or mean manner.

Example Sentences

All the reporters hoped to be the first to get the lowdown on the celebrity's marriage plans.

here's the lowdown

to give somebody the lowdown

Lawyer Jeff, he knows the low-down / It’s mighty bad to visit home

lowdown tactics

So there I was, in the front row of course (it was my reportorial duty), with a bunch of gay men and straight women. And we're all involved in a lowdown — but eminently "Safe" — celebration of the erotic possibilities of the male body.

Some kinda way, he talked Aunt Fanny into running off with him that night. When they got as far as Kansas City, he was through with her. They stayed in some lowdown kinda hotel in the colored section there', and after that they were headed God knows where.

“I say, that’s playing it a bit low down,” I protested.

Word Forms

• low-down
• low down
• more lowdown
• most lowdown

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