lowdown
The English word “lowdown” has 6 meanings listed here.
noun
- inside information, the story or truth.
- A lowlife, a despicable person.
adjective
- Unfair; scoundrelly; shameful.
- seedy, sketchy, disreputable
- down low; purporting to be heterosexual while engaged in sex with men.
adverb
Etymology
Compound adjective of low + down in the sense of "humble" recorded in the 1540s, in the sense of "vulgar, far down the social scale" in 1888. Recorded as a noun in 1915 in the slang sense of secret or inside information.
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