Usually means: British electronic music, rap origin.
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  1. grime: Merriam-Webster
  2. grime: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. grime: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. grime: Collins English Dictionary
  5. grime: Vocabulary.com
  6. Grime, grime: Wordnik
  7. grime: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Grime, grime: Wiktionary
  9. grime: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. grime: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. grime: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Grime, grime: Dictionary.com
  13. grime: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. grime: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. GrimE, Grime (album), Grime (genre), Grime (music), Grime (music genre), Grime: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Grime: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. grime: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. grime: Rhymezone
  19. grime: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. grime: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. grime: FreeDictionary.org
  22. grime: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. grime: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Grime: World Wide Words
  25. grime: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. grime: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. GRIME: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. grime: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  Dirt, grease, soot, etc. that is ingrained and difficult to remove.
▸ noun:  (music) A genre of urban music that emerged in London, England, in the early 2000s, primarily a development of UK garage, dancehall, and hip hop.
▸ verb:  To begrime; to cake with dirt.
▸ noun:  A surname from Old Norse.

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dirt, filth, dirty, begrime, bemire, stain, grease, colly, soil, dirty grease, more...

Opposite:
clean, pure, spotless

Phrases:
RL Grime, The Grime and the Glow, of grime, more...

Adjectives:
black, industrial, oily, much, old, urban, sooty, thick, ingrained, general, greasy

Colors:
    charcoal,     soot,     graphite,     pewter,     gunmetal, more...


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Similar:
dirt, filth, dirty, begrime, bemire, stain, grease, colly, soil, dirty grease, more...

Opposite:
clean, pure, spotless

Phrases:
RL Grime, The Grime and the Glow, of grime, more...

Adjectives:
black, industrial, oily, much, old, urban, sooty, thick, ingrained, general, greasy

Colors:
    charcoal,     soot,     graphite,     pewter,     gunmetal, more...



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