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dimeless

adj

Etymology

From dime + -less.

  1. derived from decima (pars)
  2. derived from decima
  3. derived from disme
  4. inherited from dime
  5. suffixed as dimeless — “dime + less”

Definitions

  1. Without a dime

    Without a dime; broke.

    • 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.
    • 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...

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