Dime
WordNet
noun
(1) Street name for a packet of illegal drugs that is sold for ten dollars
(2) A United States coin worth one tenth of a dollar
WiktionaryText
Etymology 1
From , from
Noun
- A coin worth one-tenth of a dollar. The physical coin is smaller than a penny.
- A coin worth one-tenth of a Canadian dollar.
- An assist
- A playing card with the rank of ten
- Ten dollars
- A thousand dollars
- A measurement of illicit drugs (usually marijuana) sold in ten dollar bags.
- A very small area
- This car can turn on a dime.
- Payment responsibility
- Are you traveling on the company's dime?
- A beautiful woman (10 from the 10-point scale)
- She's a dime piece.
Synonyms
ten cent piece (Used in other countries with dollars and cents currencies) grandEtymology 2
From the use of the coin in a payphone to report a crime to the police. US payphones charged 10¢ in almost all jurisdictions until the late 1970s.
Verb
- To inform on, to turn in to the authorities, to rat on, especially anonymously.
- Somebody dimed on me and I got arrested for selling marijuana.
Verb
dime!
- imperative of decir, to say/tell, with the suffixed 1st person singular pronoun me, me: tell me