Usually means: Core details of a matter.
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  1. nitty-gritty, the nitty-gritty: Merriam-Webster
  2. nitty-gritty: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nitty-gritty: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nitty-gritty, nitty-gritty, the nitty-gritty, the nitty-gritty: Collins English Dictionary
  5. nitty-gritty: Vocabulary.com
  6. Nitty-Gritty, nitty-gritty: Wordnik
  7. the nitty-gritty: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. nitty-gritty: Wiktionary
  9. nitty-gritty: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. nitty-gritty: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. nitty-gritty: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. nitty-gritty: Dictionary.com
  13. nitty-gritty: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. nitty-gritty: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Nitty-gritty: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. nitty-gritty: Rhymezone
  17. nitty-gritty: FreeDictionary.org
  18. nitty-gritty: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. nitty-gritty: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. Nitty-gritty: World Wide Words
  21. nitty-gritty: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. nitty-gritty: Encyclopedia

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  1. the nitty-gritty: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nitty-gritty, nitty-gritty: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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▸ noun:  (originally US, colloquial, also attributively) The core or essence of something; the gist.

Similar:
heart, kernel, nub, inwardness, essence, meat, substance, gist, sum, core, more...

Opposite:
superficial, superficially

Phrases:
the nitty-gritty, more...

Colors:
    charcoal,     taupe,     olive,     rust,     umber, more...


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Similar:
heart, kernel, nub, inwardness, essence, meat, substance, gist, sum, core, more...

Opposite:
superficial, superficially

Phrases:
the nitty-gritty, more...

Colors:
    charcoal,     taupe,     olive,     rust,     umber, more...



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