dime
(noun) a United States coin worth one tenth of a dollar
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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.
• (coin): ten cent piece (Used in other countries with dollars and cents currencies)
• (thousand dollars): grand
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.
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).
• (inform on): drop a dime on someone; See also rat out
• Demi, Diem, demi, demi-, idem, meid
Dime
An Omotic language, spoken by fewer than 10,000 speakers in Ethiopia.
• 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
21 January 2025
(verb) follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something; “We must follow closely the economic development is Cuba”; “trace the student’s progress”; “trace one’s ancestry”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
