dimed

to rat someone out.

Joe dropped a dime on Tommy to the police to collect the reward. Joe dimed Tommy.
comes from the days (up until the '70's) when it only cost a dime to use the payphone to make a call - in this case to the police.

by word cracker001 August 21, 2008

dimed

When a company steals your credit card information and sells it to others.

I signed up to a sportsbook last night, and today someone in Barbados dimed me.

by aphid2 February 13, 2017

dimed

A high decibel level on a stereo.

We were cruising down Bathurst Street with the stereo dimed, and it was just then that we saw the kitty cat.

by Grosse Douceur September 05, 2006

dimed

It has several meanings: drunk, high, tired, out of it

"I can't remember 1989
I can't remember what you look like
Cause I was dimed
Wasn't the whole world at the time?"
From the Matthew Good Band song Sort Of A Protest Song

by devilonrollerskates December 18, 2005

dimed

To pay many small additional expenses (that you think are unnecessary/unfair).

We're all so used to being dimed.

by LukeLeva January 16, 2021

dime

A beautiful girl, a perfect 10

Ewa is a dime!

by G-MacbookPro_witdaRetinaScreen December 14, 2014

The dimes

A slang term referring to the 2010s decade. Just like how the 1990s can be shortened to "the nineties", the 2010s can be shortened to "the dimes".

"Obama was president back in the dimes."
"I miss the rage comics of the early dimes."

by TypedGraph12 March 29, 2023