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English Dictionary: DIME by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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
    Synonym(s): dime bag, dime
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Dime \Dime\, n. [F. d[8c]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.
  
      {Dime novel}, a novel, commonly sensational and trashy, which
            is sold for a dime, or ten cents.
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