DROPADIME

drop a dime

Verb

  1. To make a phone call, usually means calling the police to report another's activities.
    He was in the back for a few minutes. Turned out he was dropping a dime on Ralph.
    We got a crowd of black, white customers, out-of-state license plates, what have you. Somebody gonna check that out. They gonna drop a dime on me, call 911. With my jacket, I can't go back to jail.


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