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dime

noun
/daɪm/

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from decima (pars)
  2. derived from decima
  3. derived from disme
  4. inherited from dime

Definitions

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

  2. A small amount of money.

    • She didn't spend a dime.

  3. An assist.

  4. ›+ 13 more definitions

    1. A playing card with the rank of ten.

    2. Ten dollars.

    3. A thousand dollars.

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

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

    5. A ten-year prison sentence.

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

    6. Payment responsibility.

      • Are you traveling on the company's dime?

    7. A 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

    8. A defensive formation with six defensive backs, one of whom is a dimeback.

    9. A particularly long or precise throw that ends with a catch.

    10. 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.

    11. To operate an audio amplifier (especially an electric guitar amplifier) at level "10"…

      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.

    12. An Omotic language, spoken by fewer than 10,000 speakers in Ethiopia.

    13. Acronym of Dark Internet Mail Environment.

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Derived

bet a dime to a dollar, bet a dollar to a dime, dime a dozen, dimeback, dime back, dime bag, dime-bag, dime-dropper, dime dropper, dimeless, dimelike, dime museum, dime novel, dime novelist, dime piece, dime store, dime's worth, drop a dime, five-and-dime, five and dime, half dime, Mercury dime, nickel-and-dime, nickel and dime, not worth a dime, on a dime, on someone's dime, on someone's own dime, Yankee dime

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dime. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA