dimen.

Brit.

/dʌɪm/, U.S.

/daɪm/

Forms: Middle English dyme, (Middle English des(s)ime, dyeme), Middle English–1500s dysme, Middle English–1800s disme, 1500s dism, desme, deeme, deme, 1500s–1800s dime.

Etymology: < Old French disme, dime < Latin decima tithe, tenth part, feminine of decimus tenth.

†1.

a. A tenth part, a tithe paid to the church or to a temporal ruler. Obsolete or Historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > fixed proportion dues or taxes > [noun] > tithe

tithingOE

decimaa1325

dime1377

decimationc1460

tenth1587

tithe1600

in-teinds1621

decimate1641

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xv. 526 Take her landes, ȝe lordes, and let hem lyue by dymes.

c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 418 Þat pariȝschens shulden drawe fro persouns offeringis & dymes.

1399 in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1859) I. 412 His purvyours toke, withoute preiere at a parliament, a poundage..and a fifteneth and a dyme eke.

c1460 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (1885) xii. 139 Owre commons..give to thair kynge, at somme tymes quinsimes and dessimes [MS. Digby 145 dismes.]

1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) ii. xvii. sig. n.iiii ^v He fasted, he payed the demes, he gaue almesse.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. cxlviii. f. lxxviii^v Y^t he myght leuy certayne dymys to wage therwith Souldyours.

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 833/1 The Cardinall sued a pardon from Rome, to be freed from all dismes, due to the kyng by y^e church of Winchester.

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 523 Now Sylla consecratinge the dismes of all his goodes vnto Hercules [etc.].

a1618 W. Raleigh Remains (1664) 50 In his forty ninth year he had a disme and a fifteenth granted him freely.

1659 J. Howell Some Prov. French Toung 27/2 in Lex. Tetraglotton (1660) From all tymes it was ordained to pay dimes or tithes unto the Lord.

1884 L. Oliphant Haifa (1887) 133 The dime..has heretofore been the share of the government.

b. figurative. A ‘tithe’ of war, a tenth man sacrificed.

ΚΠ

1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. ii. 18 Euery tith soule 'mongst many thousand dismes, Hath beene as deere as Hellen.

a. A silver coin of the United States of America, of the value of 10 cents, or ¹/ ₁₀ of a dollar. plural. Money; financial gain; frequently the dimes (U.S. colloquial).

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > North American coins > U.S.

quarter dollar1615

bit1683

quarter1776

cent1782

dollar1785

dime1786

eagle1786

half-dollar1786

half-eagle1786

sharpshin1804

picayune1805

caser1825

pic1839

double eagle1849

slug1851

hog1859

pine tree money1859

martin bita1884

meter1940

1786 Ordin. Continental Congress U.S. 8 Aug. Mills, Cents, Dimes, Dollars.

1809 E. A. Kendall Trav. Northern Parts U.S. I. xviii. 193 Dimes or tenth parts are mentioned by writers, but never enter into accounts.

1821 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Writings (1892) I. 75 The division into dimes, cents and mills is now..well understood.

1843 Spirit of Times 21 Jan. 560/3 Times are hard, and dimes are scarce.

1846 S. F. Smith Theatr. Apprenticeship 7 I, in search of ‘the dimes’, acted plays in newly-built theatres.

a1861 T. Winthrop John Brent (1883) xxvi. 233 Count out yer dimes, and I'll fill out a blank bill of sale.

1871 Harper's Mag. June 37/2 Among the excursionists there would be..such as travel to gather ideas rather than dimes.

1872 O. W. Holmes Poet at Breakfast-table (1885) xii. 320 Not bad, my bargain! Price one dime.

1893 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 1 Apr. 6/3 The so-called middle-classes..the people who are accustomed to count their nickels and dimes as well as their dollars.

b. a dime a dozen, so plentiful as to be almost worthless. Also dime-a-dozen attributive phr. North American colloquial.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [adjective] > so plentiful as to be of little value

undainteousc1449

dime-a-dozen1930

the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > in abundance [phrase] > so as to be almost worthless

a dime a dozen1930

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > of little worth > of no great value

no great scratch1844

dime-a-dozen1930

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adverb] > of little worth > of no great value

a dime a dozen1930

1930 C. Terrett Only Saps Work 188 These are mere dime-a-dozen rackets, compared with the truly big-time stock market swindles.

1948 Galveston (Texas) News 14 June 7/7 Sunday night at the cocktail party and buffet supper, choice fishing stories were a dime a dozen.

1970 M. Pei Words in Sheep's Clothing ii. 12 Coinages of the type of ‘power-pak’ are a dime a dozen.

1977 I. Shaw Beggarman, Thief iii. ix. 328 ‘I thought you were too good looking just to be nobody.’ ‘A dime a dozen,’ Wesley said. ‘I'm just a seaman at heart.’

Compounds

C1. attributive. Costing a dime.

ΚΠ

1859 (title) Beadle's dime song book.

1860 (title) Beadle's dime book of dreams..compiled from the most accredited sources for the ‘Dime series’.

1861 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) 26 Jan. 38/2 I invested in the dime editions of startling narratives.

1892 Daily News 29 Mar. 2/5 The nuisance of ‘dime shows’ as they are called in America.

C2.

dime novel n. a cheap sensational novel: cf. penny dreadful n. and adj., shilling shocker; hence dime-novelish adj., dime-novelist.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > book > kind of book > books as sold > [noun] > books sold at specific price

sixpenny1840

penny dreadful1861

dime novel1864

shilling dreadful1885

penny horrible1899

sevenpenny1907

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > novel > [noun] > sensational novel or thriller

sensation novel1856

penny dreadful1861

dime novel1864

curdler1872

dreadful1874

blood and thunder1876

penny awful1880

shilling dreadful1885

thrill1886

thriller1889

blood1892

terror novel1896

penny horrible1899

spine-thriller1912

roman noir1926

spine-chiller1940

scorcher1942

spine-tingler1942

spine-freezer1960

1864 N. Amer. Rev. July 304 A Dime Novel is issued each month.

1865 A. H. Stephens Diary (1910) 424 A little primer-looking sort of a child's book. It was a dime novel.

1879 H. George Progress & Poverty x. ii. 443 The boy who reads dime novels wants to be a pirate.

1879 Amer. Punch Apr. 40/1 Written to order by the hundred, by a Dime novelist in New York.

1882 Cent. Mag. 25 212/1 You are as bad as a dime novel.

1887 Scribner's Mag. July 120/1 It was a trifle boyish, and ‘dime-novelish’.

1914 R. Herrick Clark's Field 7 The facts are not all dime-novelish, but very human and significant.

dime-store n. U.S. a shop in which the maximum price was originally a dime; also attributive or as adj. , spec. designating a cheap and inferior article; cf. five-and-ten n. (cent store).

ΚΠ

1928 M. H. Weseen Crowell's Dict. Eng. Gram. 188 Dime store, colloquial name for a store that specializes in articles selling for ten cents. The five and ten is a variant.

1931 Kansas City (Missouri) Star 23 Oct. A dime store in Emporia.

1938 Newsweek 31 Jan. 36/1 ‘Best buy’ was a dime-store product, which cost 5 cents a gram.

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §21/14 Cheap; paltry,..dime-store.

Draft additions December 2006

North American slang.

a. Chiefly Gambling. Ten dollars; (also, depending on context) one hundred or one thousand dollars. Cf. dime note n. at Additions.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > specific sums of money > ten dollars

sawbuck1850

dime1958

society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > specific sums of money > a thousand dollars

grand1915

thousand1919

yard1926

G1928

dime1958

1958 W. Motley Let No Man write my Epitaph 161 A dime is ten dollars.

1978 E. Anderson Place on Corner (1981) v. 133 You seen Sonny? I wish I could find him. The stud owe me a dime (ten dollars).

2000 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 9 Mar. 24/3 Depending on the size of the game, a ‘nickel’ is $5, $50, or $500; a ‘dime’ is $10, $100, or $1000.

2003 N.Y. Times Mag. 17 Aug. 37/3 While L.R. and I were talking, a bet came in to one of the employees in the pen. ‘Lafayette for five dimes,’ she shouted out.

b. Ten dollars' worth of an illicit drug. Cf. nickel n. 2c.Recorded earliest in dime bag n. at Additions (b).

ΚΠ

1965 Chicago Tribune 7 Mar. (Mag.) 29/1 Inside a leg at the other end of the bed was Wally's stash: four nickel bags and two dime bags—$40 worth of heroin altogether.

1970 R. Thorp & R. Blake Music of their Laughter 61/1 We smoked about a dime and a half, and man, by this time, we were quite enthusiastically stoned, and we could not move.

1999 D. Century Street Kingdom iv. 149 They used to sell dimes of coke in foil paper, folded up in square packets.

2001 N.Y. Mag. 11 June 38/2 Black Top's crack was cheap—it sold ‘nicks’ for $5 while most other dealers sold ‘dimes’ for $10.

c. Ten years in prison; a ten-year prison sentence. Cf. nickel n. 2b.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > [noun] > sentence or term of > specific term of (year(s))

year1874

rest1882

two-spot1885

trey1887

swy1924

sawbuck1925

handful1930

taxi1930

nickel1953

dime1967

1967 ‘Iceberg Slim’ Pimp ii. 51 The son-of-a-bitch is stir crazy. His voice-box screwed up on him a 'dime' ago. He's been the brass nuts here for a double dime.

1976 in D. Wepman et al. Life 105 You can bet he had to do that dime.

1989 ‘C. Roman’ Foreplay xix. 245 A dime stretch at Dorchester Jail.

2003 Wired June 76/3 As ex-ranger Mace Griffin, you mercilessly track down the criminals for whom you wrongly did a dime in the slammer.

Draft additions December 2006

dime bag n. originally and chiefly North American (a) a bag containing ten cents' worth of something; (b) slang a packet or measure of a small amount (originally ten dollars' worth) of an illicit drug; cf. nickel bag n. at nickel n. and adj. Compounds 2a.

ΚΠ

1923 N.Y. Times 5 Aug. vi. 12/5 When men went into a shop to buy candy for some one else they would get a dime bag of some cheap candy that they could stick way down in their pockets for themselves.

1946 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald Amer. 24 Mar. 36/4 The green and yellow paper grass again is being sold by the dime bag.

1965 Chicago Tribune 7 Mar. (Mag. section) 29/1 Inside a leg at the other end of the bed was Wally's stash: four nickel bags and two dime bags—$40 worth of heroin altogether.

1998 Evening Standard (Nexis) 2 Oct. 29 We used to buy our grass in dime bags for eight bucks.

Draft additions January 2005

dime-dropper n. U.S. slang a police informer; cf. to drop a dime at drop v. Additions.

ΚΠ

1966 N.Y. Post 24 Aug. 30/1 Words like ‘muska’ and ‘dime dropper’ don't show up on middle class-oriented intelligence tests.

1970 G. Scott-Heron Vulture vi. 241 Somebody inna neighborhood wuz a dime dropper.

1996 P. Beatty White Boy Shuffle (1997) 85 You tell that dime-dropper Clio she better not leave her witness protection program.

Draft additions December 2006

dime note n. U.S. slang a ten-dollar bill.

ΚΠ

1915 Boston Daily Globe 19 Dec. 37/2 You can lose a ‘nickel note’ of five dollars, a dime note of ten, a ‘C’ a hundred, or a ‘grand’, a thousand dollars.

2001 D. Yeadon Way of Wanderer 156 Costs $100 for twenty minutes in these places. Hell, back home in Texas I can git an hour for a coupla dime notes.

Draft additions June 2022

North American. on (also upon) a dime: in a very small space or short distance; (figurative) quickly, suddenly, or unexpectedly. Frequently in to turn on (also upon) a dime and variants: to turn (or be able to turn) or manoeuvre in a very small space or short distance; (figurative) to change (or be liable to change) position or direction quickly, suddenly, or unexpectedly. Similarly in to stop on (also upon) a dime. Cf. on (also upon) a sixpence at sixpence n. Additions.Originally referring to a horse with the agility to turn sharply in a very small area.

ΚΠ

1911 Washington Post 28 May (Sporting section) 4/7 The English [polo] ponies having the flange on the inside of the shoe, which..is the part of the foot most needing a bracing when a pony turns ‘on a dime’.

1920 W. R. York in J. N. Hall & C. B. Nordhoff Lafayette Flying Corps I. 511 I was up against a much better pilot than myself, a bird who could turn around on a dime.

1940 Open Road for Boys Sept. 21/2 (advt.) What a bike! You stop on a dime with the Fore Wheel Brake.

1950 R. Macdonald Drowning Pool ix. 83 While she danced on a dime by herself, he moved in a circle about her.

1953 Forbes 15 Jan. 14 (heading) The steelers: too big to turn on a dime, they make their money from fighting production costs.

1972 D. E. Westlake Bank Shot ii. 16 Kelp..stomped on the brake. It was a power brake, and the car stopped on a dime.

1977 H. O'Hagan Woman who got on at Jasper Station 50 He pulled savagely on his hackamore bridle and the sorrel mare, in her time a first-rate cow-pony—she could turn on a dime—pivoted beneath him.

1994 H. Burton Leonard Bernstein i. i. 7 I'd turn on the Victrola and play him a record and he would stop crying, like on a dime.

2019 Phil's Stock World (Nexis) 3 Jan. The fact that stocks and stock markets can turn on a dime is one of the most frustrating aspects of investing.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	dime
释义	dimen. Brit. /dʌɪm/, U.S. /daɪm/ Forms: Middle English dyme, (Middle English des(s)ime, dyeme), Middle English–1500s dysme, Middle English–1800s disme, 1500s dism, desme, deeme, deme, 1500s–1800s dime. Etymology: < Old French disme, dime < Latin decima tithe, tenth part, feminine of decimus tenth. †1. a. A tenth part, a tithe paid to the church or to a temporal ruler. Obsolete or Historical. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > fixed proportion dues or taxes > [noun] > tithe tithingOE decimaa1325 dime1377 decimationc1460 tenth1587 tithe1600 in-teinds1621 decimate1641 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xv. 526 Take her landes, ȝe lordes, and let hem lyue by dymes. c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 418 Þat pariȝschens shulden drawe fro persouns offeringis & dymes. 1399 in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1859) I. 412 His purvyours toke, withoute preiere at a parliament, a poundage..and a fifteneth and a dyme eke. c1460 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (1885) xii. 139 Owre commons..give to thair kynge, at somme tymes quinsimes and dessimes [MS. Digby 145 dismes.] 1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) ii. xvii. sig. n.iiii ^v He fasted, he payed the demes, he gaue almesse. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. cxlviii. f. lxxviii^v Y^t he myght leuy certayne dymys to wage therwith Souldyours. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 833/1 The Cardinall sued a pardon from Rome, to be freed from all dismes, due to the kyng by y^e church of Winchester. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 523 Now Sylla consecratinge the dismes of all his goodes vnto Hercules [etc.]. a1618 W. Raleigh Remains (1664) 50 In his forty ninth year he had a disme and a fifteenth granted him freely. 1659 J. Howell Some Prov. French Toung 27/2 in Lex. Tetraglotton (1660) From all tymes it was ordained to pay dimes or tithes unto the Lord. 1884 L. Oliphant Haifa (1887) 133 The dime..has heretofore been the share of the government. b. figurative. A ‘tithe’ of war, a tenth man sacrificed. ΚΠ 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. ii. 18 Euery tith soule 'mongst many thousand dismes, Hath beene as deere as Hellen. View more context for this quotation 2. a. A silver coin of the United States of America, of the value of 10 cents, or ¹/ ₁₀ of a dollar. plural. Money; financial gain; frequently the dimes (U.S. colloquial). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > North American coins > U.S. quarter dollar1615 bit1683 quarter1776 cent1782 dollar1785 dime1786 eagle1786 half-dollar1786 half-eagle1786 sharpshin1804 picayune1805 caser1825 pic1839 double eagle1849 slug1851 hog1859 pine tree money1859 martin bita1884 meter1940 1786 Ordin. Continental Congress U.S. 8 Aug. Mills, Cents, Dimes, Dollars. 1809 E. A. Kendall Trav. Northern Parts U.S. I. xviii. 193 Dimes or tenth parts are mentioned by writers, but never enter into accounts. 1821 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Writings (1892) I. 75 The division into dimes, cents and mills is now..well understood. 1843 Spirit of Times 21 Jan. 560/3 Times are hard, and dimes are scarce. 1846 S. F. Smith Theatr. Apprenticeship 7 I, in search of ‘the dimes’, acted plays in newly-built theatres. a1861 T. Winthrop John Brent (1883) xxvi. 233 Count out yer dimes, and I'll fill out a blank bill of sale. 1871 Harper's Mag. June 37/2 Among the excursionists there would be..such as travel to gather ideas rather than dimes. 1872 O. W. Holmes Poet at Breakfast-table (1885) xii. 320 Not bad, my bargain! Price one dime. 1893 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 1 Apr. 6/3 The so-called middle-classes..the people who are accustomed to count their nickels and dimes as well as their dollars. b. a dime a dozen, so plentiful as to be almost worthless. Also dime-a-dozen attributive phr. North American colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [adjective] > so plentiful as to be of little value undainteousc1449 dime-a-dozen1930 the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > in abundance [phrase] > so as to be almost worthless a dime a dozen1930 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > of little worth > of no great value no great scratch1844 dime-a-dozen1930 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adverb] > of little worth > of no great value a dime a dozen1930 1930 C. Terrett Only Saps Work 188 These are mere dime-a-dozen rackets, compared with the truly big-time stock market swindles. 1948 Galveston (Texas) News 14 June 7/7 Sunday night at the cocktail party and buffet supper, choice fishing stories were a dime a dozen. 1970 M. Pei Words in Sheep's Clothing ii. 12 Coinages of the type of ‘power-pak’ are a dime a dozen. 1977 I. Shaw Beggarman, Thief iii. ix. 328 ‘I thought you were too good looking just to be nobody.’ ‘A dime a dozen,’ Wesley said. ‘I'm just a seaman at heart.’ Compounds C1. attributive. Costing a dime. ΚΠ 1859 (title) Beadle's dime song book. 1860 (title) Beadle's dime book of dreams..compiled from the most accredited sources for the ‘Dime series’. 1861 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) 26 Jan. 38/2 I invested in the dime editions of startling narratives. 1892 Daily News 29 Mar. 2/5 The nuisance of ‘dime shows’ as they are called in America. C2. dime novel n. a cheap sensational novel: cf. penny dreadful n. and adj., shilling shocker; hence dime-novelish adj., dime-novelist. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > kind of book > books as sold > [noun] > books sold at specific price sixpenny1840 penny dreadful1861 dime novel1864 shilling dreadful1885 penny horrible1899 sevenpenny1907 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > novel > [noun] > sensational novel or thriller sensation novel1856 penny dreadful1861 dime novel1864 curdler1872 dreadful1874 blood and thunder1876 penny awful1880 shilling dreadful1885 thrill1886 thriller1889 blood1892 terror novel1896 penny horrible1899 spine-thriller1912 roman noir1926 spine-chiller1940 scorcher1942 spine-tingler1942 spine-freezer1960 1864 N. Amer. Rev. July 304 A Dime Novel is issued each month. 1865 A. H. Stephens Diary (1910) 424 A little primer-looking sort of a child's book. It was a dime novel. 1879 H. George Progress & Poverty x. ii. 443 The boy who reads dime novels wants to be a pirate. 1879 Amer. Punch Apr. 40/1 Written to order by the hundred, by a Dime novelist in New York. 1882 Cent. Mag. 25 212/1 You are as bad as a dime novel. 1887 Scribner's Mag. July 120/1 It was a trifle boyish, and ‘dime-novelish’. 1914 R. Herrick Clark's Field 7 The facts are not all dime-novelish, but very human and significant. dime-store n. U.S. a shop in which the maximum price was originally a dime; also attributive or as adj. , spec. designating a cheap and inferior article; cf. five-and-ten n. (cent store). ΚΠ 1928 M. H. Weseen Crowell's Dict. Eng. Gram. 188 Dime store, colloquial name for a store that specializes in articles selling for ten cents. The five and ten is a variant. 1931 Kansas City (Missouri) Star 23 Oct. A dime store in Emporia. 1938 Newsweek 31 Jan. 36/1 ‘Best buy’ was a dime-store product, which cost 5 cents a gram. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §21/14 Cheap; paltry,..dime-store. Draft additions December 2006 North American slang. a. Chiefly Gambling. Ten dollars; (also, depending on context) one hundred or one thousand dollars. Cf. dime note n. at Additions. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > specific sums of money > ten dollars sawbuck1850 dime1958 society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > specific sums of money > a thousand dollars grand1915 thousand1919 yard1926 G1928 dime1958 1958 W. Motley Let No Man write my Epitaph 161 A dime is ten dollars. 1978 E. Anderson Place on Corner (1981) v. 133 You seen Sonny? I wish I could find him. The stud owe me a dime (ten dollars). 2000 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 9 Mar. 24/3 Depending on the size of the game, a ‘nickel’ is $5, $50, or $500; a ‘dime’ is $10, $100, or $1000. 2003 N.Y. Times Mag. 17 Aug. 37/3 While L.R. and I were talking, a bet came in to one of the employees in the pen. ‘Lafayette for five dimes,’ she shouted out. b. Ten dollars' worth of an illicit drug. Cf. nickel n. 2c.Recorded earliest in dime bag n. at Additions (b). ΚΠ 1965 Chicago Tribune 7 Mar. (Mag.) 29/1 Inside a leg at the other end of the bed was Wally's stash: four nickel bags and two dime bags—$40 worth of heroin altogether. 1970 R. Thorp & R. Blake Music of their Laughter 61/1 We smoked about a dime and a half, and man, by this time, we were quite enthusiastically stoned, and we could not move. 1999 D. Century Street Kingdom iv. 149 They used to sell dimes of coke in foil paper, folded up in square packets. 2001 N.Y. Mag. 11 June 38/2 Black Top's crack was cheap—it sold ‘nicks’ for $5 while most other dealers sold ‘dimes’ for $10. c. Ten years in prison; a ten-year prison sentence. Cf. nickel n. 2b. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > [noun] > sentence or term of > specific term of (year(s)) year1874 rest1882 two-spot1885 trey1887 swy1924 sawbuck1925 handful1930 taxi1930 nickel1953 dime1967 1967 ‘Iceberg Slim’ Pimp ii. 51 The son-of-a-bitch is stir crazy. His voice-box screwed up on him a 'dime' ago. He's been the brass nuts here for a double dime. 1976 in D. Wepman et al. Life 105 You can bet he had to do that dime. 1989 ‘C. Roman’ Foreplay xix. 245 A dime stretch at Dorchester Jail. 2003 Wired June 76/3 As ex-ranger Mace Griffin, you mercilessly track down the criminals for whom you wrongly did a dime in the slammer. Draft additions December 2006 dime bag n. originally and chiefly North American (a) a bag containing ten cents' worth of something; (b) slang a packet or measure of a small amount (originally ten dollars' worth) of an illicit drug; cf. nickel bag n. at nickel n. and adj. Compounds 2a. ΚΠ 1923 N.Y. Times 5 Aug. vi. 12/5 When men went into a shop to buy candy for some one else they would get a dime bag of some cheap candy that they could stick way down in their pockets for themselves. 1946 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald Amer. 24 Mar. 36/4 The green and yellow paper grass again is being sold by the dime bag. 1965 Chicago Tribune 7 Mar. (Mag. section) 29/1 Inside a leg at the other end of the bed was Wally's stash: four nickel bags and two dime bags—$40 worth of heroin altogether. 1998 Evening Standard (Nexis) 2 Oct. 29 We used to buy our grass in dime bags for eight bucks. Draft additions January 2005 dime-dropper n. U.S. slang a police informer; cf. to drop a dime at drop v. Additions. ΚΠ 1966 N.Y. Post 24 Aug. 30/1 Words like ‘muska’ and ‘dime dropper’ don't show up on middle class-oriented intelligence tests. 1970 G. Scott-Heron Vulture vi. 241 Somebody inna neighborhood wuz a dime dropper. 1996 P. Beatty White Boy Shuffle (1997) 85 You tell that dime-dropper Clio she better not leave her witness protection program. Draft additions December 2006 dime note n. U.S. slang a ten-dollar bill. ΚΠ 1915 Boston Daily Globe 19 Dec. 37/2 You can lose a ‘nickel note’ of five dollars, a dime note of ten, a ‘C’ a hundred, or a ‘grand’, a thousand dollars. 2001 D. Yeadon Way of Wanderer 156 Costs $100 for twenty minutes in these places. Hell, back home in Texas I can git an hour for a coupla dime notes. Draft additions June 2022 North American. on (also upon) a dime: in a very small space or short distance; (figurative) quickly, suddenly, or unexpectedly. Frequently in to turn on (also upon) a dime and variants: to turn (or be able to turn) or manoeuvre in a very small space or short distance; (figurative) to change (or be liable to change) position or direction quickly, suddenly, or unexpectedly. Similarly in to stop on (also upon) a dime. Cf. on (also upon) a sixpence at sixpence n. Additions.Originally referring to a horse with the agility to turn sharply in a very small area. ΚΠ 1911 Washington Post 28 May (Sporting section) 4/7 The English [polo] ponies having the flange on the inside of the shoe, which..is the part of the foot most needing a bracing when a pony turns ‘on a dime’. 1920 W. R. York in J. N. Hall & C. B. Nordhoff Lafayette Flying Corps I. 511 I was up against a much better pilot than myself, a bird who could turn around on a dime. 1940 Open Road for Boys Sept. 21/2 (advt.) What a bike! You stop on a dime with the Fore Wheel Brake. 1950 R. Macdonald Drowning Pool ix. 83 While she danced on a dime by herself, he moved in a circle about her. 1953 Forbes 15 Jan. 14 (heading) The steelers: too big to turn on a dime, they make their money from fighting production costs. 1972 D. E. Westlake Bank Shot ii. 16 Kelp..stomped on the brake. It was a power brake, and the car stopped on a dime. 1977 H. O'Hagan Woman who got on at Jasper Station 50 He pulled savagely on his hackamore bridle and the sorrel mare, in her time a first-rate cow-pony—she could turn on a dime—pivoted beneath him. 1994 H. Burton Leonard Bernstein i. i. 7 I'd turn on the Victrola and play him a record and he would stop crying, like on a dime. 2019 Phil's Stock World (Nexis) 3 Jan. The fact that stocks and stock markets can turn on a dime is one of the most frustrating aspects of investing. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † dimev. Forms: Also Middle English dyme, 1600s disme. Etymology: < French dîme-r, Old French dismer, diesmer = Provençal desmar , Spanish dezmar , Portuguese dezimar , Italian decimare < Latin decimāre to take a tithe, (later) to pay tithes, < decima : see dime n. Obsolete. rare. transitive. a. To take a tenth part of, to tithe. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > fixed proportion dues or taxes > [verb (transitive)] > exact tithe of tithea1382 dime1483 teind1483 tenth1647 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 64 b/2 He shall taske and dyme your corn and sheues. b. To divide into tenths. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > ten > [verb (transitive)] > divide into ten tenth1598 dime1610 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia ii. iv. 52 Disme or deuide each foote of the Rule..into decimals or Tenths. Derivatives † ˈdimable adj. (in 5 dymable, dymeable) Obsolete tithable. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > fixed proportion dues or taxes > [adjective] > relating to tithes > liable to pay or subject to tithes tithingOE tithablec1450 dimable1489 teindable1705 tithed1845 1489 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 61 It is not the Kyngs mynd to ses no dymeable land, and we have no suit land, but it is dymable. Draft additions January 2005 transitive. U.S. slang. To inform on (a person) to the police. Also to dime on. Cf. to drop a dime at drop v. Additions. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > informing on or against > inform on or against [verb (intransitive)] inform1588 peach1598 whistle1599 sing1612 whiddlec1661 squeak1690 wheedle1710 whittle1735 to blow the gab1785 snitch1801 rat1810 nose1811 sing1816 gnarl1819 split1819 stag1839 clype1843 squeal1846 blow1848 to round on1857 nark1859 pimp1865 squawk1872 ruck1884 to come or turn copper1891 copper1897 sneak1897 cough1901 stool1911 tattle-tale1918 snout1923 talk1924 fink1925 scream1925 sarbut1928 grass1929 to turn over1967 dime1970 1970 G. Scott-Heron Vulture i. 37 He wanted it badly enough to take the chance of being dimed on by some punk. 1990 J. Wambaugh Golden Orange xvi. 214 I hope I can persuade Starkey to dime the old man. I'd like to make a case the D.A.'d have to prosecute. 2000 P. Cornwell Last Precinct (2001) 296 Even if someone out there dimed Mitch, you don't send in a hit man like Matos. 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