dime
About 1.45 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun A coin worth one-tenth of a dollar, that is, ten cents.
- noun A small amount of money.
She didn't spend a dime.
- noun An assist.
- noun A playing card with the rank of ten.
- noun Ten dollars.
- noun A thousand dollars.
- noun A measure of illicit drugs (usually marijuana) sold in ten-dollar bags.
- noun A ten-year prison sentence.
Similar words
priced dollar penny shilling hundred cent coin currency scholarship money
Often followed by
novels novel and a store to in for on
Word family
dimes drop dimes dropped dimes dropping dimes drops dimes
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