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Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (song)
"Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" is a 1976 hard rock song by AC/DC, title track of their album, sung by Bon Scott, produced by Harry Vanda and George Young, peaking at UK No. 47 in 1980.
Dirty Diana
Dirty Diana: 1987 Michael Jackson hard-rock song from Bad, released as a single April 18, 1988; fifth of five consecutive Hot 100 number-ones, with a Steve Stevens guitar solo and a Joe Pytka video.
Dirty Grandpa
Dirty Grandpa (2016), Dan Mazer comedy starring Robert De Niro and Zac Efron: a widowed grandfather tricks his lawyer grandson into a Daytona Beach spring break road trip; grossed about $94 million but scored 10% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Dirty Hari
Dirty Hari (Telugu: డర్టీ హరి) is a 2020 Telugu erotic thriller written and directed by M. S. Raju, starring Shravan Reddy, Ruhani Sharma, and Simrat Kaur; released 18 December 2020 on Friday Movies, certified A, later streaming on aha.
Dirty Harry
Dirty Harry is a 1971 American police thriller directed by Don Siegel, starring Clint Eastwood as detective Harry Callahan, who hunts a rooftop sniper named Scorpio.
Dirty Harry (character)
Dirty Harry is the nickname of Inspector Harry Callahan, a fictional San Francisco homicide inspector played by Clint Eastwood in five films between 1971 and 1988.
Dirty Harry (film series)
The Dirty Harry film series: five American action-thrillers (1971-1988) starring Clint Eastwood as San Francisco Inspector Harry Callahan, the renegade cop with a .44 Magnum who became a conservative icon.
Dirty Heads
Dirty Heads are a reggae-rock band from Huntington Beach, California, blending hip-hop, reggae, and rock. Known for "Lay Me Down" (11 weeks at No. 1 Alternative, 2010), the platinum viral hit "Vacation", and the 2026 ninth album 7 Seas.
Dirty Hippies
Dirty hippies: pejorative for unkempt hippies since the late 1960s, used by critics and affectionately in festival culture; also a Sumbawa surf break, Phuket coffeeshop, and Cyberpunk RED faction.
Dirty Hit
Dirty Hit: British independent record label founded in London by Jamie Oborne (2009/2010), home to The 1975, Beabadoobee, Wolf Alice, Rina Sawayama; distributed via Virgin Music Group and Universal Music UK.
Dirty Honey
Dirty Honey is a Los Angeles hard rock band (vocalist Marc LaBelle, guitarist John Notto, bassist Justin Smolian, drummer Corey Coverstone) whose 2019 single "When I'm Gone" was the first by an unsigned artist to top Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart; albums include Dirty Honey (2021) and Can't Find the Brakes (2023).
Dirty Jobs
Dirty Jobs is a Discovery Channel reality series created and hosted by Mike Rowe, in which he apprentices at unpleasant American jobs. Pilots aired 2003, series 2005–2012, with Rowe'd Trip and seasons 9–10 revivals in 2020–2022.
Dirty John
Dirty John is a six-part true-crime podcast reported and hosted by Los Angeles Times journalist Christopher Goffard and released with Wondery in October 2017, examining the con man John Meehan.
Dirty John (TV series)
Dirty John is an American true-crime anthology drama series (2018-2020) based on Christopher Goffard's Los Angeles Times podcast: season 1 dramatizes the Debra Newell-John Meehan case on Bravo, season 2 the Betty Broderick case on USA Network.
Dirty Laundry (Don Henley song)
Dirty Laundry is a 1982 Don Henley and Danny Kortchmar rock satire of television news, the second single from I Can't Stand Still; it peaked at number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 1 on the rock chart, and number 59 in the UK.
Dirty Loops
Dirty Loops (ダーティ・ループス) are a Swedish fusion trio from Stockholm, Jonah Nilsson, Henrik Linder, and Aron Mellergårdh, known for jazz-funk reworkings of pop hits, Verve Records signing by David Foster, and albums Loopified, Phoenix, and Turbo.
Dirty Mind
Dirty Mind is Prince's third studio album, released October 8, 1980 on Warner Bros. Recorded at his Minnesota home studio and credited as 'Somewhere in Uptown', it fused funk, new wave, R&B and pop, captured the Minneapolis Sound and peaked at #43 on the Billboard 200.
Dirty Money
Dirty Money is a Netflix investigative documentary series from Alex Gibney's Jigsaw Productions on corporate corruption, two seasons of six episodes (2018, 2020), covering Volkswagen, HSBC, Trump, Wells Fargo, 1MDB, and Kushner, cancelled in 2023.
Dirty Old Town
Dirty Old Town: folk song written by Ewan MacColl (James Henry Miller) in 1949 about Salford, England, for his play Landscape with Chimneys; popularized by The Dubliners (1968) and The Pogues (1985), often mistaken for an Irish song about Dublin.
Dirty Pair (ダーティペア)
Dirty Pair (ダーティペア) is Haruka Takachiho's SF action series about WWWA trouble consultants Kei and Yuri, the Lovely Angels nicknamed Dirty Pair for the disasters they cause. Debuting in S-F Magazine in 1979, it won a Seiun Award and was adapted by Sunrise into a 1985 TV anime, OVAs, and a 1987 film.
Dirty Pair (ダーティペア) (TV series)
Dirty Pair (ダーティペア) is a 24-episode Japanese science fiction anime produced by Nippon Sunrise in 1985, based on Haruka Takachiho's novels; it won the 1985 Animage Anime Grand Prix.
Dirty paper coding
Dirty paper coding is a channel coding technique that pre-codes transmitted data so a receiver decodes reliably despite known interference, with no power increase or rate loss.
Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam
Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam is a 2024 Netflix three-part TIME Studios docuseries about Lou Pearlman, manager of Backstreet Boys and NSYNC and architect of a roughly $500 million Ponzi scheme, notable for its AI-generated Pearlman narration.
Dirty Pretty Things (film)
Dirty Pretty Things is a 2002 Stephen Frears thriller, Steven Knight's first screenplay, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Audrey Tautou as undocumented London immigrants who uncover a hotel-based organ trafficking ring; Oscar-nominated for Best Original Screenplay.
Dirty Projectors
Dirty Projectors: experimental pop/indie rock band formed 2002 in Brooklyn by David Longstreth, known for Bitte Orca (2009), the Rise Above Black Flag rework, the Björk collaboration Mount Wittenberg Orca, 5EPs (2020), and Song of the Earth (2025) with Stargaze.
Dirty protest
The dirty protest, also called the No Wash Protest, was a 1978–1981 Irish republican prison resistance at Long Kesh/Maze, Northern Ireland, and at Armagh: prisoners refused to wash or slop out and smeared excrement on cell walls to reject criminalization, escalating to the hunger strikes.
Dirty rap
Dirty rap, also called booty rap, porno rap, or sex rap, is a hip hop subgenre focused on sexually explicit lyrics, built on Miami bass and pioneered by 2 Live Crew, with Blowfly as precursor.
Dirty realism
Dirty realism is a term for spare, unsentimental American short fiction of the late 1970s and 1980s, named in 1983 by Granta editor Bill Buford.
Dirty Rotten Imbeciles
Dirty Rotten Imbeciles, known as D.R.I., are an American crossover thrash band formed in Houston, Texas, in 1982, whose 1987 album Crossover gave the genre its name.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (film)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a 1988 American comedy film directed by Frank Oz, starring Michael Caine and Steve Martin as rival con men on the French Riviera.