1991 Santa Fe New Mexican 13 Feb. c1/5 What do you eat after a hard day at work: Donna's dirty martinis.

1992 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 28 Dec. (Food section) w9 Strain the drink directly into the glass, shake excess juice off the olive garnish (unless the client has requested a ‘dirty’ martini) and deposit the olive-bearing toothpick in the glass.

2011 Atlantic Monthly May 76/2 He was waiting at the bar, nursing a dirty martini.

1912 Chicago Tribune 27 Oct. vi. 2/5 Don't, I beg of you, attempt to use peroxide on your hair. It will bleach it and make it a dirty blonde color.

1938 Washington Post 3 Aug. 10/6 He's just a dirty blond, but he looks awfully good to me.

1970 in R. Thorp & R. Blake Music of their Laughter 32/2 I color my hair. Naturally it's dirty blonde.

1999 New Eng. Rev. Winter 69 I notice Garbo's hair is shaded in-between dark and light... Although I bet no one ever called her a dirty blonde.

1955 Salisbury (Maryland) Times 1 Apr. 6/5 The latest atomic device is described as tiny, but it kicks up more dust into the air than any yet exploded. This very small and very dirty bomb seems ideally suited for wars of the future.]

1956 Newark (Ohio) Advocate & Amer. Tribune 25 July 4/5 Exploded near the surface, the three mile fireball of a ‘dirty bomb’ scoops out vast quantities of material, radio-poisons it, and sucks it into the upper atmosphere.

1967 Pacific Affairs 40 74 In his frequent speeches on disarmament at the UN, Menon was fond of applying his sardonic wit to the debate over ‘clean’ and ‘dirty’ bombs.

1993 ABC News: Primetime Live (transcript of TV programme) (Nexis) 14 Oct. What would have happened if the bomb at the World Trade Center had been a dirty bomb, a conventional explosive but with some radioactive material in it?

2003 Guardian 5 July (Guide Suppl.) 65/3 Is Britain prepared for a major terrorist attack, for example, a ‘dirty bomb’ in the heart of one of our cities?

1987 N.Y. Times 16 Aug. ii. 19/1 Ms. Bergstein [sc. Eleanor Bergstein, writer of the film]..moved effortlessly from tutoring inner-city kids in the afternoon to shimmying in ‘dirty dancing’ contests at night.

1991 J. Barnes Talking it Over vii. 89 When he walked in I thought, You can take me dirty dancing any day of the week. Really tasty, long black hair, brilliant.

2000 Big Issue 4 Sept. 17/3 (caption) Elvis outraged TV audiences with his dirty dancing.

1986 A. G. Guillermo in V. G. Enriquez Philippine World-view 64 Middle-class households may have a dining room for everyday use as well as a dirty kitchen to keep the sweat and soot away from the guests.

1998 V. L. Malang Inventions & Innovations (1999) 192 Even in the modern homes of the rich, you would almost always find a dirty kitchen equipped with traditional earthen pots.

2006 Manila Times (Nexis) 7 July Each villa is a standalone home that is suited to families, with three bedrooms, a kitchen, a dining area, two carports, living quarters for the maid and driver, a laundry area with washing machine and dryer, and even dirty kitchen.

1949 G. S. Perry Families Amer. viii. 132 It is sometimes spoken of, with loving familiarity, as ‘dirty rice’ or, again, referring to its giblet content, as une affaire des gizzards.

1982 W. L. Heat Moon Blue Highways iii. viii. 108 The word Cajun brought up the scent of gumbo, hot boudin, and dirty rice.

2004 Chile Pepper Feb. 39/3 You'll love the huge pork chop.., served up heartily with dirty rice and red-eye gravy.

1992 D. G. Fernandez in Proc. Oxf. Symp. Food & Cookery 1991 99 Playful, with folk colors and designs are those [carts] that sell ‘dirty’ ice-cream—so called by generations of children whose mothers told them: ‘Don't buy ice cream from those carts; it's dirty’—and who bought it anyway.

1997 Filipinas (Electronic ed.) 31 July 43 You had a sudden homesick craving for the food of your childhood..especially..the ‘dirty’ ice cream you bought from the roving vendor with his pushcart and bell every afternoon.

2017 Philippine Daily Inquirer (Nexis) 2 Aug. This quirky little shop front is now Mamasons, Europe's very first Filipino ‘dirty ice cream’ parlor, which opened last June.

1931 Observer 22 Feb. 4/2 If those were the naughty nineties, these are the dirty thirties.

1946 Amer. Scientist Oct. 640 The high price of wheat and our careless farm practices led to the dust storms of the ‘dirty thirties’.

2020 Edmonton Sun (Nexis) 8 Feb. (Final ed.) t58 He began..back-stopping a number of lines to nowhere, which ended up nearly bankrupting the province when the hammer came down during the Dirty Thirties.

1879 Cases Court of Appeals State Texas 6 73 Witness approached the accused to demand an apology, when the latter raised his hand, and witness struck at..him... The next day..the accused hailed him... ‘You did me dirty, last night.’

1977 A. Fugard No-good Friday v. in Dimetos & Two Early Plays 157 You done me dirty, Willie. You done me all wrong. You went along to the police like any cheap blabbermouth to cause me trouble.

2019 @unwh0retunate 6 Oct. in twitter.com (accessed 18 Dec. 2020) You're not stupid for trusting people who did you dirty. They lied..that's on them.

1833 Northern Whig (Belfast) 9 Dec. 2/4 For a length of time, the gas lights of Belfast have been exceedingly dirty in quality. We have often said, what we now repeat, that the sagacious wiseacres of Belfast were blindfolding themselves, when they entered into a twenty-one years' contract for lighting the town with filthy coal gas, whilst a Dublin company were desirous of erecting an oil establishment in this town.

1895 Electr. Rev. 1 Feb. 144/2 At present they are doing absolutely nothing to make electricity the poor man's light... The poor man rubs along with gas. If he gets sick of the dirty gas supplied by the gas companies he tries oil.

1976 Daily Rep. (Ontario-Upland, Calif.) 8 Oct. 24/3 (headline) Coal lambasted as most dirty energy source.

2000 Clean Air Rep. 25/2 No incentives for ‘dirty technologies’. The CDM should not create incentives for nuclear power, so called ‘clean’ coal technologies or large hydro.

2015 N.Y. Mag. 7 Sept. 28/3 It is extremely hard to force a shift to clean energy when dirty energy is much cheaper.