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DIME
dime
(noun) a United States coin worth one tenth of a dollar
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
dime (plural dimes)
(US) A coin worth one-tenth of a U.S. dollar.
(Canada) A coin worth one-tenth of a Canadian dollar.
(North America) A small amount of money
(US, basketball) An assist
(slang) A playing card with the rank of ten
(slang) Ten dollars
(slang) A thousand dollars
(slang) A measurement of illicit drugs (usually marijuana) sold in ten dollar bags.
(slang) Payment responsibility
(US, slang) A beautiful woman (10 on a 10-point scale)
(American football) A defensive formation with six defensive backs, one of whom is a dimeback.
Synonyms
• (coin): ten cent piece (Used in other countries with dollars and cents currencies)
• (thousand dollars): grand
Etymology 2
From the use of the coin in a payphone to report a crime to the police. US payphones charged 10¢ in almost all jurisdictions until the late 1970s.
Verb
dime (third-person singular simple present dimes, present participle diming, simple past and past participle dimed)
(US, slang, with "on") To inform on, to turn in to the authorities, to rat on, especially anonymously.
(US, slang) To operate an audio amplifier (especially an electric guitar amplifier) at level "10" (typically the highest amplification level).
Synonyms
• (inform on): drop a dime on someone; See also rat out
Anagrams
• Demi, Diem, demi, demi-, idem, meid
Proper noun
Dime
An Omotic language, spoken by fewer than 10,000 speakers in Ethiopia.
Anagrams
• Demi, Diem, demi, demi-, idem, meid
Source: Wiktionary
Dime, n. Etym: [F. dîme tithe, OF. disme, fr. L. decimus the tenth, fr. decem ten. See Decimal.]
Definition: A silver coin of the United States, of the value of ten cents; the tenth of a dollar. Dime novel, a novel, commonly sensational and trashy, which is sold for a dime, or ten cents.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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