dime
Plural: dimes
Noun
- A monetary coin of the United States worth ten cents.
- a United States coin worth one tenth of a dollar
- street name for a packet of illegal drugs that is sold for ten dollars
- A coin worth one-tenth of a dollar.
- A small amount of money.
- An assist.
- A playing card with the rank of ten.
- Ten dollars.
- A thousand dollars.
- A measure of illicit drugs (usually marijuana) sold in ten-dollar bags.
- A ten-year prison sentence.
- Payment responsibility.
- A beautiful woman (10 on a 10-point scale).
- A defensive formation with six defensive backs, one of whom is a dimeback.
Verb
- To inform on, to turn in to the authorities, to rat on, especially anonymously.
- To operate an audio amplifier (especially an electric guitar amplifier) at level "10" (typically the highest amplification level).
Examples
- Are you traveling on the company's dime?
- He had so few points, his score wasn’t even worth a DIME after that last move.
- I get the best-sounding sustain and smooth harmonic distortion when I run the amp dimed.
- She didn't spend a dime.
- Somebody dimed on me and I got arrested for selling marijuana.
Origin / 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.
Synonyms
dime bag, bewray, blow the whistle, clepe, denounce, dime, dime out, dime piece, dob, drop a dime, drop a dime on someone, finger, fink, fizgig, grand, grass on, grass up, inform, inform on, lolly up, name names, nark, peach, rat on, rat out, roll on, sing, snitch, snitch up, squeak, squeal, tattle, tell, tell all, tell on, tell tales, ten-cent piece, tip off, turn in
Scrabble Score: 7
dime: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Worddime: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
dime: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary