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pay-dirt

pay-dirt is the alternative form of pay dirt.

Meaning of pay dirt

Noun

pay dirt (uncountable)

  1. Earth which contains profitable quantities of ore.
  2. (figuratively) A profitable area or period; success.
    • to hit pay dirt

Questions about pay-dirt

What is pay-dirt the alternative form of?
Pay-dirt is the alternative form of pay dirt.

Words near pay-dirt in the dictionary

  1. pay with one's life
  2. pay-and-display
  3. pay-as-you-eat
  4. pay-as-you-go
  5. pay-by-wave
  6. pay-dirt
  7. pay-for
  8. pay-for-delay
  9. pay-fors
  10. pay-in slip
  11. pay-in slips

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pay-dirt (page history and authors); pay dirt (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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