lowdown

inside information, the story or truth.uncountable

• All the reporters hoped to be the first to get the lowdown on the celebrity's marriage plans.
• here's the lowdown

A lowlife, a despicable person.uncountable

Unfair; scoundrelly; shameful.

• lowdown tactics

seedy, sketchy, disreputable

• So there I was, in the front row of course (it was my reportorial duty), with a bunch of gay men and straight women. And we're all involved in a lowdown — but eminently "Safe" — celebration of the erotic possibilities of the male body.

down low; purporting to be heterosexual while engaged in sex with men.

Unfairly; dishonourably; in a deceitful or mean manner.

• “I say, that’s playing it a bit low down,” I protested.