Usually means: Personal problems aired publicly.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word dirty laundry:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. dirty laundry: Merriam-Webster
  2. dirty laundry: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. dirty laundry: Vocabulary.com
  4. dirty laundry: Wiktionary
  5. dirty laundry: Dictionary.com
  6. Dirty Laundry (All Time Low song), Dirty Laundry (Carrie Underwood song), Dirty Laundry (Don Henley song), Dirty Laundry (Ian Hunter album), Dirty Laundry (Kelly Rowland song), Dirty Laundry (album), Dirty Laundry (disambiguation), Dirty Laundry, Dirty laundry: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. dirty laundry: Rhymezone
  8. dirty laundry: FreeDictionary.org
  9. dirty laundry: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. dirty laundry: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  2. dirty laundry: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dirty laundry: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (dirty laundry)

noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dirty, laundry.
noun:  (idiomatic) Unflattering or embarrassing facts, or questionable activities that one wants to remain secret, but which someone else may use as blackmail.
noun:  (metonymically) A clothes hamper or other container in which soiled laundry is placed.

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