Usually means: Unfair manipulation in competitive situations.
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  1. dirty pool: Merriam-Webster
  2. dirty pool: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dirty pool: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dirty pool: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dirty pool: Vocabulary.com
  6. dirty pool: Wiktionary
  7. dirty pool: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. dirty pool: Dictionary.com
  9. dirty pool: Rhymezone
  10. dirty pool: FreeDictionary.org
  11. dirty pool: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. dirty pool: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dirty Pool: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dirty pool)

▸ noun:  (slang) Foul play; misconduct; underhandedness.

Similar:
foul play, mud wrestling, dirty work, dirty trick, dirty business, dirty laundry, filth, cheap trick, dirty money, outside work, more...

Opposite:
fair play, sportsmanship, integrity

Adjectives:
grimy, dirty, unclean, fowl, filthy, horry, hory, feculent, foule, reechy, smutty

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Similar:
foul play, mud wrestling, dirty work, dirty trick, dirty business, dirty laundry, filth, cheap trick, dirty money, outside work, more...

Opposite:
fair play, sportsmanship, integrity

Adjectives:
grimy, dirty, unclean, fowl, filthy, horry, hory, feculent, foule, reechy, smutty



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