dime
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English dime, from Anglo-Norman disme (“one tenth, tithe”) (modern French dîme), from Latin decimus (“tenth”).[1] Doublet of decime.
Noun[edit]
dime (plural dimes)
- (US, Canada) A coin worth one-tenth of a dollar.
- (Canada, US) A small amount of money.
- She didn't spend a dime.
- (US, Philippines, basketball) An assist.
- (slang) A playing card with the rank of ten.
- (slang) Ten dollars.
- (slang) A thousand dollars.
- Synonym: grand
- 2007 05, Ted McClelland, Horseplayers: Life at the Track, Chicago Review Press, →ISBN:
- At one point, Rob hit a dire losing streak. In a single week, he dropped a dime—$1,000.
- (slang) A measurement of illicit drugs (usually marijuana) sold in ten dollar bags.
- (slang) A ten year prison sentence.
- (slang) Payment responsibility.
- Are you traveling on the company's dime?
- (US, slang) A beautiful woman (10 on a 10-point scale).
- Synonym: dime piece
- 2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown[2], performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG:
- Make a couple of nuns a couple of dimes.
- 2008, “House Music”, in Afterparty Babies, performed by Cadence Weapon:
- Wait in line for drinks, it’s another time out / Made out on the floor with a couple dimes
- (American football) A defensive formation with six defensive backs, one of whom is a dimeback.
Synonyms[edit]
- (coin): ten cent piece (Used in other countries with dollar-and-cent currencies)
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from dime (noun)
- bet a dime to a dollar
- bet a dollar to a dime
- dime a dozen
- dimeback
- dime back
- dime-bag
- dime bag
- dime dropper
- dime-dropper
- dime museum
- dime novel
- dime novelist
- dime piece
- dime store
- dime's worth
- drop a dime
- five-and-dime
- five and dime
- half dime
- Mercury dime
- nickel-and-dime
- nickel and dime
- not worth a dime
- on a dime
- on someone's dime
- on someone's own dime
- Yankee dime
Translations[edit]
a coin worth one-tenth of a dollar
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References[edit]
- Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. →ISBN
Etymology 2[edit]
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[edit]
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.
- Synonyms: drop a dime on someone, dime out; see also Thesaurus:rat out
- Somebody dimed on me and I got arrested for selling marijuana.
- (US, slang) To operate an audio amplifier (especially an electric guitar amplifier) at level "10" (typically the highest amplification level).
- I get the best-sounding sustain and smooth harmonic distortion when I run the amp dimed.
References[edit]
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “dime”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Further reading[edit]
- Jonathon Green (2024) “dime n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang
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Italian[edit]
Noun[edit]
dime f
Anagrams[edit]
Ladino[edit]
Verb[edit]
dime
- imperative singular of dezir with first-person singular pronoun attached: tell me.
- 1979, Kamelia Shahar, “La verdadera felisidad”, in Aki Yerushalayim, number 1:
- Eliau Anavi ke lo estava mirando d'enfrente se aserko de el i le disho: Dime ombre, deke estas de negra umor ?
- The prophet Elijah, who was watching him from in front, approached him and said: Tell me, man, why are you in a bad mood?
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English. Ultimately from Latin decimus (“tenth”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
dime m (definite singular dimen, indefinite plural dimes, definite plural dimene)
- a dime
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Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English. Ultimately from Latin decimus (“tenth”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
dime m (definite singular dimen, indefinite plural dimes, definite plural dimane)
- a dime
Anagrams[edit]
Spanish[edit]
Verb[edit]
dime
- second-person singular imperative of decir combined with me
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