dime.
A coin worth one-tenth of a dollar, that is, ten cents.
Meaning & usage
A coin worth one-tenth of a dollar, that is, ten cents.
A small amount of money.
She didn't spend a dime.
An assist.
A playing card with the rank of ten.
Ten dollars.
A thousand dollars.
A measure of illicit drugs (usually marijuana) sold in ten-dollar bags.
A ten-year prison sentence.
Payment responsibility.
Are you traveling on the company's dime?
A beautiful woman (10 on a 10-point scale).
A defensive formation with six defensive backs, one of whom is a dimeback.
A particularly long or precise throw that ends with a catch.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English dime, from Anglo-Norman disme (“one tenth, tithe”) (modern French dîme), from Medieval Latin decima, from Latin decima (pars) (“tenth (part)”). Doublet of decim, decima, and decime.
To inform on, to turn in to the authorities, to rat on, especially anonymously.
Somebody dimed on me and I got arrested for selling marijuana.
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.
Where this word comes from
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.
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