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dime
noun- ten dollars US, 1958
- “I only got a dime. But I sure would like to put it out for even a little of the horse.” — Dale Krame, Teen-Age Gangs, p. 55, 1953
- A dime is ten dollars. — Willard Motley, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, p. 148, 1958
- Couldn’t you borrow a dime from Moira, Joe? — Alexander Trocchi, Cain’s Book, p. 35, 1960
- Here! Take this one! Gimme a dime! — Odie Hawkins, Ghetto Sketches, p. 59, 1972
- Gimme thirty-five of it, put fifteen in your stocking for mad money, and put the dime in your purse. Let it be that way all the time. A dime is the most you carry in your purse. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 168, 1973
- one hundred dollars US, 1988
- Since I had more than five dimes bet on the White Sox-Tiger second game, I didn’t comment on the charge. — Gary Mayer, Bookie, p. 185, 1974
- Two hundred bucks, two small, two dimes, two C-notes, all blown away. — Robert Campbell, Juice, p. 9, 1988
- Twenty dimes on Columbia. — Casino, 1995
- one thousand dollars US, 1974
- You owe almost eight dimes. you never shoulda got in so deep, but you did. — Joseph Wambaugh, The Black Marble, p. 39, 1978
- — Michael Knapp, Bay Sports Review, p. 8, November 1991
- Twenty dimes on Columbia. — Casino, 1995
- ten years; a ten-year prison sentence US
- [B]oth doing 10 years for SALE–but Tam’s dime was new and Joe’s was old, and he only had a year left. — Clarence Cooper Jr., The Farm, p. 25, 1967
- The repeater said, “The son-of-a-bitch is stir crazy. His voice-box screwed up on him a ‘dime’ ago.” — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 51, 1969
- — Clarence Major, Dictionary of Afro-American Slang, p. 46, 1970
- He had to do a dime (ten years) for the Government. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 88, 1973
- — Paul Glover, Words from the House of the Dead, 1974
- Guy did a dime–in the labor camps, froze his ass. — Edwin Torres, After Hours, p. 173, 1979
- Sutpid fools, Lloyd thought, risking half a dime minimum for a thousand dollars top. — James Ellroy, Blood on the Moon, p. 74, 1984
- a pretty girl US
A product of a one-to-ten scale for rating beauty, with ten being the best; thus an updated way of saying “a ten”. - He was the man and she was a dime. — Earl “DMX” Simmons, E.A.R.L., p. 13, 2002
- Dime (n.): a good-looking woman — Ventura County Star, p. A3, 21 May 2002
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 4, October 2002
▶ on a dime
precisely, suddenly US- The order was, you see anybody run, give them a warning, and if they don’t stop on a dime, shoot. — Elmore Leonard, Out of Sight, p. 109, 1996
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