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Dirty Dozen

Dirty Dozen proper noun: the twelve rookies who made the Dallas Cowboys team in 1975.

Proper noun

the Dirty Dozen

  1. The twelve rookies who made the Dallas Cowboys team in 1975.
  2. A team of twelve IBM employees, formed in 1980, who created the first IBM PC in 1981.
  3. The United States' men's basketball team (which consists of twelve players) at the 1998 FIBA World Championship.
  4. Saddam Hussein and eleven others who carried out his orders.
  5. A one-day road cycling race founded in 1983 (which originally featured twelve hills, but since 1988 has typically featured a baker's dozen of thirteen hills), held annually in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
  6. The twelve most common aircraft problems, resulting from human error, that may lead to accidents etc.
  7. The twelve species of fruits and vegetables that are declared the most likely to be contaminated by pesticides over the last year.

Questions about Dirty Dozen

What does Dirty Dozen mean?
Dirty Dozen means the twelve rookies who made the Dallas Cowboys team in 1975.
What part of speech is Dirty Dozen?
Dirty Dozen is a proper noun.

Words near Dirty Dozen in the dictionary

  1. dirty delete
  2. dirty deleted
  3. dirty deletes
  4. dirty deleting
  5. dirty down
  6. Dirty Dozen
  7. dirty dozens
  8. dirty feed
  9. dirty feeds
  10. dirty finger
  11. dirty fingers

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