单词 | dime bag |
释义 | > as lemmasdime bag 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. < as lemmas |
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