Dime

n.

1.

A silver coin of the United States, of the value of ten cents; the tenth of a dollar. Dime novel a novel, commonly sensational and trashy, which is sold for a dime, or ten cents; - they were popular from ca. 1850 to ca. 1920. Sometimes the term is still applied to any novel of the type, though the price has greatly increased.

Noun	1.	dime - a United States coin worth one tenth of a dollar
	2.	dime - street name for a packet of illegal drugs that is sold for ten dollars Synonyms: dime bag

DIME, money. A silver coin of the United States, of the value of one-tenth part of a dollar or ten cents.
     2. It weighs forty-one and a quarter grains. Of one thousand parts, nine hundred are of pure silver and one hundred of alloy. Act of January 18, 1837, s. 8 and 9, 4 Sharsw. cont. of Story's L. U. S. 2523-4.

DIrect Memory Execute (AGP)C, C-note, G, G-note, buck, cartwheel, cent, century, copper, dollar, dollar bill, fifty cents, fin, fish, five cents, five hundred dollars, five-dollar bill, five-hundred-dollar bill, five-spot, fiver, four bits, frogskin, grand, half G, half a C, half dollar, half grand, hundred-dollar bill, iron man, mill, nickel, penny, quarter, red cent, sawbuck, silver dollar, skin, smacker, ten cents, ten-spot, tenner, thousand dollars, thousand-dollar bill, twenty-dollar bill, twenty-five cents, two bits, two-dollar bill, two-spot, yard

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