Dime in Scrabble and Meaning

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You can make 16 words from dime according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of dime

dime idme dmie mdie imde mide diem idem deim edim iedm eidm dmei mdei demi edmi medi emdi imed mied iemd eimd meid emid

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Definitions and meaning of dime

dime

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daɪm/
• Rhymes: -aɪm

Etymology 1

From Middle English dime, from Anglo-Norman disme (“one tenth, tithe”) (modern French dîme), from Latin decimus (“tenth”). Doublet of decime.

Noun

dime (plural dimes)

1. (US, Canada) A coin worth one-tenth of a dollar.

   Coordinate terms: quarter, nickel, penny

2. (Canada, US) A small amount of money.

3. (US, Philippines, basketball) An assist.
4. (slang) A playing card with the rank of ten.
5. (slang) Ten dollars.
6. (slang) A thousand dollars.

   Synonym: grand
7. (slang) A measurement of illicit drugs (usually marijuana) sold in ten dollar bags.
8. (slang) A ten year prison sentence.
9. (slang) Payment responsibility.

10. (US, slang) A beautiful woman (10 on a 10-point scale).

    Synonym: dime piece
11. (American football) A defensive formation with six defensive backs, one of whom is a dimeback.

Synonyms

• (coin): ten cent piece (Used in other countries with dollar-and-cent currencies)

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• buck
• dollar
• mill
• nickel
• quarter

References

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. →ISBN

Etymology 2

From the use of the coin in a payphone to report a crime to the police. US payphones charged 10¢ in almost all jurisdictions until the late 1970s.

Verb

dime (third-person singular simple present dimes, present participle diming, simple past and past participle dimed)

1. (US, slang, with "on") To inform on, to turn in to the authorities, to rat on, especially anonymously.

   Synonyms: drop a dime on someone, dime out; see also Thesaurus:rat out

2. (US, slang) To operate an audio amplifier (especially an electric guitar amplifier) at level "10" (typically the highest amplification level).

References

Further reading

• Jonathon Green (2024) “dime n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Anagrams

• Demi, Diem, IMed, demi, demi-, idem, meid

Italian

Noun

dime f

1. plural of dima

Anagrams

• IDEM, idem, medi

Ladino

Verb

dime

1. imperative singular of dezir with first-person singular pronoun attached: tell me.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English. Ultimately from Latin decimus (“tenth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɑɪ̯m/

Noun

dime m (definite singular dimen, indefinite plural dimes, definite plural dimene)

1. a dime

References

• “dime” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “dime” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from English. Ultimately from Latin decimus (“tenth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɑɪ̯m/

Noun

dime m (definite singular dimen, indefinite plural dimes, definite plural dimane)

1. a dime

Anagrams

• deim, demi-

Spanish

Verb

dime

1. second-person singular imperative of decir combined with me

See also

• dinos
• diles