Grime

English

Noun

grime (uncountable)

1. Dirt, grease, soot, etc. that is ingrained and difficult to remove.
2. (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

Grime (third-person singular simple present Grimes, present participle griming, simple past and past participle grimed)

1. To begrime; to cake with dirt

Thesaurus

begrime, bemire, bemud, besmoke, besoil, dirt, dirty, dirty up, dust, filth, foul, mire, muck, muck up, mud, muddy, scum, slime, smirch, smoke, smooch, smudge, smut, soot, tarnish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɡɹaɪm/, SAMPA: /gr\aIm/
• Rhymes: -aɪm