dirty pool

1. 1.

   conduct that is unfair or unethical or unsportsmanlike

   Broaderbehavior

Questions about dirty pool

What does dirty pool mean?

dirty pool means "conduct that is unfair or unethical or unsportsmanlike".

Is dirty pool a common word?

dirty pool is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.