Meanings
adjectivedimeless (not comparable)
- USnot comparableWithout a dime; broke.
A bunch of dimeless promoters and sponges have been buzzing around him, the kind who can smell a sucker faster than a buzzard can sight a corpse.
1975, Donald H. Dunn, Ponzi!: The Boston swindler1 more example
Since my friends and I were usually dimeless, we had to choose between climbing the pool fence, hopping the subway turnstile, jumping off one of the docks...
2000, Herbert Grossman, Emotional and behavioral problems in the classroom: a memoir
Origin
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dimeless. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dimeless
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“dimeless.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dimeless. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dimeless,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dimeless.
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