dime

Examples

• All

• - Let me get four dime bags.

  Half Baked (1998)

• But if you want, our friend Boog here has a dime bag of some very skunky shit.

  Bloodletting (1997)

• I could have a dime bag for you, toot sweet.

  Fiction book (2002)

• He bought two dime bags from a street dealer.

• During the sting operation, they found a stash of dime bags hidden in his car.

Synonyms

D

dime bag

vsdime

• NSFW

5 9.9

A small bag of illegal marijuana sold for ten dollars

is used for any packet of illegal drugs rather than mainly marijuana

Idioms

A

a dime a dozen

• Informal

12 3.2

Very common and not special or valuable

O

on a dime

• Informal

10 6.8

To move very quickly and with exact control when changing direction or plans

D

to drop a dime

• Slang

7 9.8

To tell the police about someone's crime, often secretly

T

to turn on a dime

• Informal

3 7.2

To turn quickly in a very small space, like a car

O

on someone's dime

• Informal

1 8.1

Someone else pays for it

W

worth a dime

• Informal

1 7.0

Having little or no value

N

not worth a dime

• Informal

1 6.2

Of no value or use

Compounds

D

dime bag

• NSFW

5 9.9

A small bag of illegal marijuana sold for ten dollars

D

dime novel

• Archaic

1 8.5

A cheap exciting paperback story of adventure popular in late 1800s America

N

nickel-and-dime

• Informal

1 7.2

Small and not important, usually involving little money

Y

Yankee dime

• Informal

9.9

A very small amount of money or a small favor given as a token

Surface Forms

Etymology