dime

Meanings

Noun

• A coin worth one-tenth of a U.S. dollar.
• A coin worth one-tenth of a Canadian dollar.
• A small amount of money.
• 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 ten year prison sentence
• Payment responsibility
• A beautiful woman (10 on a 10-point scale)
• A defensive formation with six defensive backs, one of whom is a dimeback.

Verb

• To inform on, to turn in to the authorities, to rat on, especially anonymously.
• To operate an audio amplifier (especially an electric guitar amplifier) at level "10" (typically the highest amplification level).

Related

Similar words

• ten cent piece

Origin

• Middle English dime, from Anglo-Norman disme ("one tenth, tithe") (modern French dîme), from Latin decimus ("tenth"). decime.
• 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.