dirty dirty
n.— «OutKast are so weird I gave up on getting a handle on Aquemini, which is when it started bubbling in my brain. I love how they represent the dirty-dirty with more juice than Zeus, rocking the ill mbira and letting Erykah Badu shake that load off with trunkloads of booty-club bass.» —“Top 10 Plus” by Rob Sheffield in Charlottesville, Va. Village Voice (New York City) Mar. 2, 1999. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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