Meanings
- USinformalA microneighborhood of Manhattan, roughly located between Chinatown and the Lower East Side neighborhoods of New York City.
I imagined her saying she'd seen Tom out on a date, or kissing some young, hot barista, or maybe with his arms wrapped around a bartender or a waitress who worked in Dimes Square.
2025, Sarah Hoover, The Motherload: Episodes from the Brink of Motherhood, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 2951 more example
The scene is often associated with “Dimes Square,” a downtown Manhattan neighborhood popular with a pandemic-weary Generation Z — or Zoomer — crowd, but it has spread across a network of podcasts and upstart publications.
2022 August 9, Julia Yost, “New York’s Hottest Club Is the Catholic Church”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 Aug 2022
Origin
Blend of Dimes + Times Square, after the Dimes restaurant located at the intersection of Canal Street and Division Street.
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Dimes Square. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Dimes%20Square
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