dime

See also dîme, and Dime

English

A United States dime.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪm

Etymology 1

From French dîme, from Latin decimus (“tenth”)

Noun

dime (plural dimes)

1. (US) A coin worth one-tenth of a dollar. The physical coin is smaller than a penny.
2. (Canada) A coin worth one-tenth of a Canadian dollar.
3. (US, basketball) An assist
4. (slang) A playing card with the rank of ten
5. (slang) Ten dollars
6. (slang) A thousand dollars
7. (slang) A measurement of illicit drugs (usually marijuana) sold in ten dollar bags.
8. (slang) A very small area

   This car can turn on a dime.

9. (slang) Payment responsibility

   Are you traveling on the company's dime?

10. (slang) A beautiful woman (10 from the 10-point scale)

    She's a dime piece.

Synonyms

• (coin): ten cent piece (Used in other countries with dollars and cents currencies)
• (thousand dollars): grand

Derived terms

terms derived from dime (noun)

a dime's worth dime bag dime store drop a dime not worth a dime stop on a dime turn on a dime

dime back nickel and dime dime a dozen not worth a dime Five and dime store Dime novels

See also

• buck
• dollar
• mill
• nickel
• quarter

Translations

A coin worth one-tenth of a dollar

Bulgarian: монета от 10 цента (bg) Finnish: 10 sentin kolikko, kymmensenttinen (fi)

German: Zehncentstück (de) n. Russian: монета в 10 центов (ru) f.

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Spanish: décimo m. (Panama)

References

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523

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)

1. (US, slang, with "on") 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.

Synonyms

• (inform on): drop a dime on,

Anagrams

• demi, Demi
• idem

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Italian

Noun

dime f.

1. Plural form of dima.

Anagrams

• idem, medi

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Spanish

Verb

dime (infinitive decir)

1. Compound of the informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of decir, di and the pronoun me.

   Dime!

   Tell me!

See also

• dinos
• diles