filthy stuff
n.— «It’s a lot more fun catching Clemens than it is hitting against him. Roger was nasty. He had filthy stuff.» —“It’s the crowning blow” by Gordon Edes in Toronto, Can. Boston Globe Sept. 26, 1997. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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