Dime \Dime\ (d[imac]m), n. [F. d[^i]me tithe, OF. disme, fr. L.
   decimus the tenth, fr. decem ten. See Decimal.]
   A silver coin of the United States, of the value of ten
   cents; the tenth of a dollar.
   [1913 Webster]

   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.
      [1913 Webster +PJC]

	

	dime
     n 1: a United States coin worth one tenth of a dollar
     2: street name for a packet of illegal drugs that is sold for
        ten dollars [syn: dime bag]

	

	49 Moby Thesaurus words for "dime":
   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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	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.