dish n.2
1. the act of abusing, cheating.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | DSUE (8th edn) 314/1: 1891. |
2. an embarrassing story about a subject’s life.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Gay Insider USA 507: ‘He will dish you to your face, not behind your back, and for some reason, you don’t mind a dish coming from Mother’. | |
| ‘Camp’ in Levine Gay Men (1979) 209: Calculated camp, packaged so that people will think she’s bringing them the real ‘dish’ from the inside. | |
| More Tales of the City (1984) 36: Charles Hillary Lord needed more dish [...] ‘DeDe’s been doing it with an Ornamental?’. | |
| Only God Priest 36: ‘What you really want is the totally deep dish on all the board members’ [Simes:DLSS]. | |
| Hope College ‘Dict. of New Terms’ 🌐 dish n. A slang term for information or gossip, commonly used by teenagers. | |
| Big Boat to Bye-Bye 22: Ellen [...] threw I’ve-got-dish eyes at Stephanie, and dragged her off to the side. | |
| Widespread Panic 4: It’s the lexicon of the lowdown. It’s the dialogue of the dish. |
In phrases
(US black) to be aware of the, usu. embarrassing, truth.
 | Phoebe’s Web Page Stanford University 🌐 Tony’s a great drinking mate. Whenever I need to know the dish on a good bar or fun places in general, Tony’s the man. |
to reveal (embarassing) secrets (about).
| Widespread Panic 4: I dumped the dish on his dope habit and call-girl cavalcade . |