dime

plural dimes

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

   The San Francisco mint made about 2.5 million of these dimes, but fewer than 10 are still known to exist, according to Heritage. That’s because a financial crisis in 1893 killed demand for new coinage, and almost all the dimes were melted down.

   2016 January 8, Aaron Smith, “This old dime just sold for $2 million”, in CNN

   Synonyms: ten-cent piece

2. CanadaUSA small amount of money.

   She didn't spend a dime.

3. PhilippinesUSball gamesAn assist.
4. slangA playing card with the rank of ten.
5. slangTen dollars.
6. slangA thousand dollars.

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

   2007 05, Ted McClelland, Horseplayers: Life at the Track, Chicago Review Press, →ISBN

   Synonyms: grand

7. slangA measure of illicit drugs (usually marijuana) sold in ten-dollar bags.
8. slangA ten-year prison sentence.

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

   2007 September 23, David Bowman, “Torchlit Crit”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

9. slangPayment responsibility.

   Are you traveling on the company's dime?

10. USslangA beautiful woman (10 on a 10-point scale).

    Make a couple of nuns a couple of dimes.

    2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG

    1 more example

    Wait in line for drinks, it’s another time out / Made out on the floor with a couple dimes

    2008, “House Music”, in Afterparty Babies, performed by Cadence Weapon

    Synonyms: dime piece

11. American footballA defensive formation with six defensive backs, one of whom is a dimeback.
12. CanadianAmerican footballA particularly long or precise throw that ends with a catch.

present singular third person dimes · participle present diming · participle past dimed · past dimed

1. USslangTo inform on, to turn in to the authorities, to rat on, especially anonymously.

   Somebody dimed on me and I got arrested for selling marijuana.

   Synonyms: drop a dime on someone, dime out, bewray, blow the whistle, clepe, denounce, dime out, dob

2. USslangTo 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.

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

1. InternetabbreviationacronymAcronym of Dark Internet Mail Environment.