dime

[ dahym ]

/ daɪm /

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noun

a cupronickel-clad coin of the U.S. and Canada, the 10th part of a dollar, equal to 10 cents.

Slang.

ten dollars.
a 10-year prison sentence.
dime bag.

Words related to dime

reveal, quarters, silver, copper, pennies, nickels, dimes, disclose, show, unmask, stool, evince, manifest, inform, tattle, spill, snitch, sing, uncover, tell

Words nearby dime

dim., dimaggio, dimashq, dimbleby, dimbulb, dime, dime a dozen, dime bag, dime novel, dime store, dimelia

Idioms for dime

a dime a dozen, Informal. so abundant that the value has decreased; readily available.

Origin of dime

1350–1400; Middle English < Anglo-French, Old French di(s)me < Latin decima tenth part, tithe, noun use of feminine of decimus tenth, derivative of decem ten

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Examples from the Web for dime

Antoine himself had recently been arrested on a six-year-old warrant for a dime bag of weed.
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He spun three times, stopped on a dime, and flashed the familiar “jazz hands” pose before walking away.
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We've turned on the dime in terms of our expectation for them.
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The first movie—3:10 to Yuma—starred Glenn Ford and came from a 1953 story that had appeared in Dime Western.
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The landlord took every dime I made last night, for rent this morning.
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If you guess you're looking for gold, it's a thousand dollars to a dime you find coal, or drown yourself in a 'gush' of oil.
The Triumph of John Kars|Ridgwell Cullum
"Very good; you may live, providing you come out immediately and give me a dime to buy some butter-scotch," returned the voice.
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Do you think it would be very extravagant if I spent a dime in market for flowers?
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The moral standards of the dime novel are always of the highest.
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British Dictionary definitions for dime

dime

/ (daɪm) /

noun

a coin of the US and Canada, worth one tenth of a dollar or ten cents

a dime a dozen very cheap or common

Word Origin for dime

C14: from Old French disme, from Latin decimus tenth, from decem ten

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Idioms and Phrases with dime

dime

In addition to the idiom beginning with dime

dime a dozen

also see:

drop a dime
get off the dime
not worth a dime

on a dime.