English

Proper noun

Dime

1. An Omotic language, spoken by fewer than 10,000 speakers in Ethiopia.

See also

• Ethnologue entry for Dime, dim

Anagrams

• demi, Demi
• idem

English

A United States dime.

Noun

dime ‎(plural dimes)

1. (US) A coin worth one-tenth of a dollar.
2. (Canada) A coin worth one-tenth of a Canadian dollar.
3. (US, basketball) An assist
4. (slang) A playing card with the rank of ten
5. (slang) Ten dollars
6. (slang) A thousand dollars
7. (slang) A measurement of illicit drugs (usually marijuana) sold in ten dollar bags.
8. (slang) Payment responsibility

   Are you traveling on the company's dime?

9. (slang) A beautiful woman (10 on a 10-point scale)

   She's a dime piece.

10. (American football) A defensive formation with six defensive backs, one of whom is a dimeback.

Synonyms

• (coin): ten cent piece (Used in other countries with dollars and cents currencies)
• (thousand dollars): grand

Derived terms

See also

• buck
• dollar
• mill
• nickel
• quarter

Translations

References

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523

Etymology 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

dime ‎(third-person singular simple present dimes, present participle diming, simple past and past participle dimed)

1. (US, slang, with "on") 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.

Synonyms

• (inform on): drop a dime on,

Anagrams

• demi, Demi
• idem

Italian

Noun

dime f

1. plural of dima

Anagrams

• idem, medi

Spanish

Verb

dime

1. Compound of the informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of decir, di and the pronoun me.

   Dime!

   Tell me!

See also

• dinos
• diles