Usually means: Ten-cent coin in America.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. dime: Merriam-Webster
  2. dime: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dime: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dime: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dime: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dime, dime: Wordnik
  7. dime: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Dime, dime: Wiktionary
  9. dime: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dime: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dime: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Dime, dime: Dictionary.com
  13. dime: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dime: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Dime (Beth song), Dime (Canadian coin), Dime (U.S. coin), Dime (United States coin), Dime (album), Dime: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dime: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dime: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dime: Rhymezone
  19. Dime: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dime: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. DIME: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. DIME: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. dime: FreeDictionary.org
  24. dime: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. dime: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. dime: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Dime: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dime: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. DIME: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. dime: Idioms

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. dime, dime, dime: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Dime: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  5. The Dime: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DIME: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. dime: Coin Collecting

(Note: See dimeing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (US, Canada) A coin worth one-tenth of a dollar.
noun:  (Canada, US) A small amount of money.
noun:  (US, Philippines, basketball) An assist.
noun:  (slang) A playing card with the rank of ten.
noun:  (slang) Ten dollars.
noun:  (slang) A thousand dollars.
noun:  (slang) A measure of illicit drugs (usually marijuana) sold in ten-dollar bags.
noun:  (slang) A ten-year prison sentence.
noun:  (slang) Payment responsibility.
noun:  (US, slang) A beautiful woman (10 on a 10-point scale).
noun:  (American football) A defensive formation with six defensive backs, one of whom is a dimeback.
verb:  (US, slang, with "on") To inform on, to turn in to the authorities, to rat on, especially anonymously.
verb:  (US, slang) To operate an audio amplifier (especially an electric guitar amplifier) at level "10" (typically the highest amplification level).
noun:  An Omotic language, spoken by fewer than 10,000 speakers in Ethiopia.
noun:  (Internet) Acronym of Dark Internet Mail Environment.

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