dime
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A coin worth one-tenth of a dollar, that is, ten cents.
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A coin worth one-tenth of a dollar, that is, ten cents.
The San Francisco mint made about 2.5 million of these dimes, but fewer than 10 are still known to exist, according to Heritage. That’s because a financial crisis in 1893 killed demand for new coinage, and almost all the dimes were melted down.
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A small amount of money.
She didn't spend a dime.
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An assist.
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argotA playing card with the rank of ten.
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argotTen dollars.
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argotA thousand dollars.
At one point, Rob hit a dire losing streak. In a single week, he dropped a dime—$1,000.
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argotA measure of illicit drugs (usually marijuana) sold in ten-dollar bags.
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argotA ten-year prison sentence.
These deaths got him a dime in a minimum-security prison.
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argotPayment responsibility.
Are you traveling on the company's dime?
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argotA beautiful woman (10 on a 10-point scale).
Make a couple of nuns a couple of dimes.
Wait in line for drinks, it’s another time out / Made out on the floor with a couple dimes
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A defensive formation with six defensive backs, one of whom is a dimeback.
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A particularly long or precise throw that ends with a catch.
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Étymologie
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.
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argotTo inform on, to turn in to the authorities, to rat on, especially anonymously.
Somebody dimed on me and I got arrested for selling marijuana.
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argotTo 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.
Étymologie
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.
Formes
- pluriel
- dimes
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- dimed
- participe passé
- dimed
- participe présent
- diming
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- dimes
dime · A coin worth one-tenth of a dollar, that is, ten cents.
Dime · An Omotic language, spoken by fewer than 10,000 speakers in…dimension · A single aspect of a given thing.dimensional · Of or pertaining to dimensions.