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How to pronounce “dime”
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Pronunciation guide for dime
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of dime with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Quality of Earnings
The whole dime increase in earnings
- Definition summary
- (US, Canada) A coin worth one-tenth of a dollar.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce dime
Quality of Earnings

The whole dime increase in earnings
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “dime”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (US, Canada) A coin worth one-tenth of a dollar.
- (Canada, US) A small amount of money.
- (US, Philippines, basketball) An assist.
- (slang) A playing card with the rank of ten.
- (slang) Ten dollars.
- (slang) A thousand dollars.
- (slang) A measure of illicit drugs (usually marijuana) sold in ten-dollar bags.
- (slang) A ten-year prison sentence.
- (slang) Payment responsibility.
- (US, slang) A beautiful woman (10 on a 10-point scale).
- (American football) A defensive formation with six defensive backs, one of whom is a dimeback.
- (American football, Canadian football) A particularly long or precise throw that ends with a catch.
- [Verb]
- (US, slang, with "on") To inform on, to turn in to the authorities, to rat on, especially anonymously.
- (US, slang) To operate an audio amplifier (especially an electric guitar amplifier) at level "10" (typically the highest amplification level).
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