Usually means: Essential information; the real scoop.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word lowdown:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. lowdown: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lowdown, the lowdown: Merriam-Webster
  3. lowdown: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lowdown: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Lowdown, lowdown: Wordnik
  6. the lowdown: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. lowdown: Wiktionary
  8. lowdown: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. lowdown: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. lowdown: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. lowdown, the lowdown: Dictionary.com
  12. lowdown: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Lowdown (Boz Scaggs song), Lowdown (Chicago song), Lowdown (TV series), Lowdown (Xample song), Lowdown, The Lowdown (TV series): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. lowdown: FreeDictionary.org
  15. lowdown: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lowdown, lowdown: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. lowdown: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  inside information, the story or truth.
noun:  A lowlife, a despicable person.
adjective:  Unfair; scoundrelly; shameful.
adjective:  seedy, sketchy, disreputable
adjective:  down low; purporting to be heterosexual while engaged in sex with men.

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