Usually means: Private matters aired publicly; scandalous.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word dirty linen:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. dirty linen: Merriam-Webster
  2. dirty linen: Collins English Dictionary
  3. dirty linen: Vocabulary.com
  4. dirty linen: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  5. dirty linen: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. dirty linen: Dictionary.com
  7. dirty linen: Rhymezone
  8. dirty linen: FreeDictionary.org
  9. dirty linen: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. dirty linen: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. dirty linen: Wiktionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dirty Linen: The Folk File

Definitions from Wiktionary (dirty linen)

noun:  Matters of an embarrassing or unsavoury nature that one would normally wish to keep private.
noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dirty, linen.

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