DIME

Dime

The dime is a ten-cent coin, one tenth of a United States dollar, labeled formally as "one dime". The denomination was first authorized by the Coinage Act of 1792. The dime is the smallest in diameter and is the thinnest of all U.S. coins currently minted for circulation. As of 2011, the dime coin cost 5.65 cents to produce.

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dime

Noun

  1. A coin worth one-tenth of a dollar. The physical coin is smaller than a penny.
  2. A coin worth one-tenth of a Canadian dollar.
  3. An assist
  4. A playing card with the rank of ten
  5. Ten dollars
  6. A thousand dollars
  7. A measurement of illicit drugs (usually marijuana) sold in ten dollar bags.
  8. A very small area
    This car can turn on a dime.
  9. Payment responsibility
    Are you traveling on the company's dime?
  10. A beautiful woman (10 from the 10-point scale)
    She's a dime piece.

Verb

  1. 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.


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