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Dirt, grease, soot, etc. that is ingrained and difficult to remove. quotations examples
Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime.
1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 14, in The China Governess
(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. examples
third-person singular simple present grimes, present participle griming, simple past and past participle grimed
To begrime; to cake with dirt. quotations examples
All grimed with coaldust, they swing along the street with their dinner baskets and cans in their hands, chattering merrily.
1862, Edwin Waugh, Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine
Fog from the river rolled up the street and the windows were grimed by soot, but Cartwright had not turned on the electric light.
1920, Harold Bindloss, Lister's Great Adventure
His skin was grimed with dust, for he had ridden hard in scorching heat, and was anxious and impatient to get on.
1918, Harold Bindloss, The Buccaneer Farmer