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drop a dime

verb

Etymology

See dime § Etymology 2

Definitions

  1. To make a telephone call.

  2. To inform, to call the authorities (on).

    • Near-synonyms: give [someone] up, give [someone] away; spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag
    • He was in the back for a few minutes. Turned out he was dropping a dime on Ralph.
    • We got a crowd of black, white customers, out-of-state license plates, what have you. Somebody gonna check that out. They gonna drop a dime on me, call 911. And you know with my jacket I can't go back to jail.

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