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  • noun Plural form of clart.

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Examples

  • And this just for Eliza: a few paragraphs later Dixon refers to himself as an "old Geordie aslog thro' the clarts"—clarts being, as I expect she knows, a northern dialect term for "sticky or claggy dirt, mud, filth."

    languagehat.com: MORE PYNCHONIAN VOCAB. 2005

  • So Ireland is in the clarts because it has borrowed too much money...and the solution is to lend it even more.

    The Guardian World News Graeme Wearden 2010

  • That'll get you out of the clarts when your sexy Insu's pack up. and what a difference it made to handling.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • That'll get you out of the clarts when your sexy Insu's pack up. and what a difference it made to handling.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • That'll get you out of the clarts when your sexy Insu's pack up. and what a difference it made to handling.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

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  • It's a dirty word in North East England.

    January 8, 2007