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A coin worth one-tenth of a dollar, that is, ten cents.

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  1. 1

    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.

  2. 2

    A small amount of money.

    She didn't spend a dime.

  3. 3

    An assist.

  4. 4

    gergoA playing card with the rank of ten.

  5. 5

    gergoTen dollars.

  6. 6

    gergoA thousand dollars.

    At one point, Rob hit a dire losing streak. In a single week, he dropped a dime—$1,000.

  7. 7

    gergoA measure of illicit drugs (usually marijuana) sold in ten-dollar bags.

  8. 8

    gergoA ten-year prison sentence.

    These deaths got him a dime in a minimum-security prison.

  9. 9

    gergoPayment responsibility.

    Are you traveling on the company's dime?

  10. 10

    gergoA 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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Etimologia

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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  1. 1

    gergoTo inform on, to turn in to the authorities, to rat on, especially anonymously.

    Somebody dimed on me and I got arrested for selling marijuana.

  2. 2

    gergoTo 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.

Etimologia

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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Le pagine vicineL'ordine alfabetico segue le regole della lingua, non il valore dei byte: un accento distingue soltanto due parole per il resto identiche, e lo spagnolo tratta la Ñ come una lettera a sé.

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