dime
/daɪm/ noun B2- A coin worth one-tenth of a dollar, that is, ten cents.
- A small amount of money. · She didn't spend a dime.
- An assist.
- A playing card with the rank of ten.
- Ten dollars.
- A thousand dollars.
- A measure of illicit drugs (usually marijuana) sold in ten-dollar bags.
- A ten-year prison sentence.
Plural dimes
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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She would have thought it rather sacrilegious to leave it off--as bad as forgetting her Bible or her collection dime.
“I seem to have walked right into the thick of a dime novel,” said our visitor.
Today, the Bluenose proudly sails on the back of every Canadian dime.
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