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gory details

gory details noun: all of the small facts or pieces of information about something, especially those that are excessively detailed or tedious.

Noun

the gory details pl (plural only)

  1. (figuratively, informal, plural, plural-only) All of the small facts or pieces of information about something, especially those that are excessively detailed or tedious.
  2. (figuratively, informal, plural, plural-only) All of the pieces of information about something, especially those that are scandalous or embarrassing in nature.
    • It was ... my chance to dish and give all the gory details about the mommy-and-me yoga class.2015, Lisa Wood Shapiro, Hot Mess Mom, Misadventures of New Motherhood
  3. (plural, plural-only) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see gory, details.
    • When the newspapers reported the murder of Martha Tabram [...] with the gory details of how she had been stabbed, […]2006, Robin Odell, Ripperology: A Study of the World's First Serial Killer and a Literary Phenomenon, Kent State University Press, →ISBN, page 169

Questions about gory details

What does gory details mean?
Gory details means all of the small facts or pieces of information about something, especially those that are excessively detailed or tedious.
What part of speech is gory details?
Gory details is a noun.

Words near gory details in the dictionary

  1. gortons
  2. Gortyn
  3. Gorum
  4. Gorums
  5. gory
  6. gory details
  7. Goryeo
  8. Gorys
  9. gorytine
  10. Gorzian
  11. Gorzuchów

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