英语词汇“to drop a dime”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

transitive. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). [With allusion to the (former) cost of a call made from a public telephone.] to drop a dime and variants: to inform on or betray a person, to act as an informer; to report illegal activity, esp. to the police. Frequently with on.

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1966 N.Y. Post 24 Aug. 30/1 To inform on someone is called ‘dropping the dime’.

1983 Washington Post 14 Jan. c5/2 You mean all these people have dropped the dime on you and you're not going to make a statement on them?

1988 N. Stephenson Zodiac iii. 24 As soon as we're done I'm going to drop a dime on one of our earnest young ecolawyers and see if we can sue the crap out of him.

1997 D. Simon & E. Burns Corner 104 He could see the dusty bitch dropping dime over a single vial.

单词	to drop a dime
释义	> as lemmas to drop a dime transitive. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). [With allusion to the (former) cost of a call made from a public telephone.] to drop a dime and variants: to inform on or betray a person, to act as an informer; to report illegal activity, esp. to the police. Frequently with on. ΚΠ 1966 N.Y. Post 24 Aug. 30/1 To inform on someone is called ‘dropping the dime’. 1983 Washington Post 14 Jan. c5/2 You mean all these people have dropped the dime on you and you're not going to make a statement on them? 1988 N. Stephenson Zodiac iii. 24 As soon as we're done I'm going to drop a dime on one of our earnest young ecolawyers and see if we can sue the crap out of him. 1997 D. Simon & E. Burns Corner 104 He could see the dusty bitch dropping dime over a single vial. extracted from dropv. < as lemmas
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