Definitions for dime

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Spelling: [dahym]
IPA: /daɪm/

Dime is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in dime (deim).

Definitions for dime

noun

  1. a cupronickel-clad coin of the U.S. and Canada, the 10th part of a dollar, equal to 10 cents.
  2. Slang. ten dollars. a 10-year prison sentence. dime bag.

Idioms

  1. a dime a dozen, Informal. so abundant that the value has decreased; readily available.

Origin of dime

1350-1400; Middle English Anglo-French, Old French di(s)me Latin decima tenth part, tithe, noun use of feminine of decimus tenth, derivative of decem ten

Examples for dime

He spun three times, stopped on a dime, and flashed the familiar “jazz hands” pose before walking away.

I won't be back for dinner, so you can put in your time reading my dime Novels.

Why do you stand there starin' at me as if I was some sort of dime show curiosity?

Antoine himself had recently been arrested on a six-year-old warrant for a dime bag of weed.

They were mostly Beadle's dime Novels, which had a great sale at the time.

In a country where talk is “cheap” and opinions are “a dime a dozen,” we give the facts special privileges and special status.

Josie was offering him a dime; he accepted it without question.

"The hell with you," Danny said to Mattup, and gave him a dime and a penny.

The first movie—3:10 to Yuma—starred Glenn Ford and came from a 1953 story that had appeared in dime Western.

We've turned on the dime in terms of our expectation for them.

Word Value for dime
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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