What is Low Down?
1.
1. getting the skinny or full disclosure of the situation
Yo slim, gimmie the lo down on the pig situation on my turf.
2.
n. The actual dirt or details that comprise a complex situation which is usually passed on from a first hand participant in the ongoing 'drama.' Sometimes this phrase references the prior details of a scenario such as background connections which expose real motive or the base common denominator that the average person may not know.
Lemme give you the low down on dupont chemicals and the situation in bophal india.
She hooked me up with the low down on why they meet up after work everynight and now I see that its all business.
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3.
a dirty little trick, or when you get punked in an especially vicious way.
Upper Decker s are a low down dirty trick only perpetrated by trash.
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