Meanings
plural dime pieces · alternative dimepiece
- slangA beautiful woman.
You're not a dime piece, you're a diva
2004, “Girl Like U”performed by Snoop Dogg ft. Nelly3 more examples
Carmiesha "Lil' Muddah" Vernoy had been with me since back in the day. She was more than a dime piece. She was drop-dead gorgeous and had the best pussy in the world.
2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 21"Don't act like we didn't kick it something fierce back in the day." Drew smiled. "My homies knew what I was working with back then," he said. "It ain't too often a brotha lucks up on a bona-fide dimepiece like you, Lachez."
2012, Tucker, Pat, Daddy's Maybe, Largo, M.D.: Strebor Books, →ISBN, page 188So tell me sugafoot. Why is a dimepiece like you single?
2014, Keisha Ervin, Cashmere Mafia, →ISBN, page 137Synonyms: dime, ten, angel, babe, beauty, belle, betty, bit of crumpet
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA beautiful woman.
Origin
Suggesting a score of ten out of ten on the informal scale of beauty, since a dime is worth ten cents. Possibly in imitation of timepiece.
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