dimeless
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dimeless (not comparable)
- (US) Without a dime; broke.
- 1975, Donald H. Dunn, Ponzi!: The Boston swindler:
- A bunch of dimeless promoters and sponges have been buzzing around him, the kind who can smell a sucker faster than a buzzard can sight a corpse.
- 2000, Herbert Grossman, Emotional and behavioral problems in the classroom: a memoir:
- Since my friends and I were usually dimeless, we had to choose between climbing the pool fence, hopping the subway turnstile, jumping off one of the docks...