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Dirt is een album van Alice in Chains uit 1992. Het album, dat uitkwam op het hoogtepunt van de grunge, wordt over het algemeen beschouwd als de bands beste werk. Het bevat met Would? ook de grootste single van de band.

Veel van de nummers op het album, met name die geschreven door Layne Staley zelf, gaan over Staleys heroïneverslaving, zoals Sickman, Junkhead en God Smack. Jerry Cantrell had teksten bijgedragen over onder andere zijn vader, die aan de Vietnamoorlog had meegedaan (Rooster) en Andrew Wood, de zanger van grungeband Mother Love Bone én stadsgenoot, die in 1990 aan een overdosis overleed (Would?).

Dirt is the second studio album by American rock band Alice in Chains, released on September 29, 1992 by Columbia Records. It was the band's last album recorded with all four original members, as bassist Mike Starr was fired in January 1993 during the tour to support the album. The majority of the songs were written by guitarist Jerry Cantrell, but for the first time, vocalist Layne Staley wrote two songs by himself ("Hate to Feel" and "Angry Chair"), both also featuring Staley on guitar. The track "Iron Gland" features Tom Araya from Slayer on vocals. The album's lyrics explore depression, pain, anger, anti-social behavior, relationships, drug (primarily heroin) addiction, war, death, and other emotionally charged topics.

Dirt received critical acclaim upon release and peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 chart. It has since been certified 5× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), making Dirt the band's highest selling album to date. The album spawned five singles: "Would?", "Them Bones", "Angry Chair", "Rooster", and "Down in a Hole", all with accompanying music videos. Dirt was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance. The music video for "Would?" was nominated for an MTV Video Music Award for Best Video from a Film, as the song was featured on the soundtrack to Cameron Crowe's 1992 film Singles. It was voted "Kerrang! Critic's Choice Album of the Year" and Guitar World named Dirt the best guitar album of 1992. It was included in the 2005 book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Loudwire named it as one of the best metal albums of the 1990s, and Rolling Stone ranked it No. 26 on its list of the "100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time" in 2017, as well as at No. 6 on its list of the "50 Greatest Grunge Albums" in 2019.