DIME

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A coin worth one-tenth of a dollar, that is, ten cents.

   “The San Francisco mint made about 2.5 million of these dimes, but fewer than 10 are still known to exist, according to Heritage. That’s because a financial crisis in 1893 killed demand for new coinage, and almost all the dimes were melted down.”

2. isim A small amount of money.

   “She didn't spend a dime.”

3. isim An assist.
4. isim A playing card with the rank of ten.
5. isim Ten dollars.
6. isim A thousand dollars.

   “At one point, Rob hit a dire losing streak. In a single week, he dropped a dime—$1,000.”

7. isim A measure of illicit drugs (usually marijuana) sold in ten-dollar bags.
8. isim A ten-year prison sentence.

   “These deaths got him a dime in a minimum-security prison.”

9. isim Payment responsibility.

   “Are you traveling on the company's dime?”

10. isim A beautiful woman (10 on a 10-point scale).

    “Make a couple of nuns a couple of dimes.”

11. isim A defensive formation with six defensive backs, one of whom is a dimeback.
12. isim A particularly long or precise throw that ends with a catch.
13. fiil To inform on, to turn in to the authorities, to rat on, especially anonymously.

    “Somebody dimed on me and I got arrested for selling marijuana.”

14. fiil To operate an audio amplifier (especially an electric guitar amplifier) at level "10" (typically the highest amplification level).

    “I get the best-sounding sustain and smooth harmonic distortion when I run the amp dimed.”

15. özel isim An Omotic language, spoken by fewer than 10,000 speakers in Ethiopia.
16. özel isim Acronym of Dark Internet Mail Environment.