Talk:Dime (slang)

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[edit] Drug Terminology

Marijuana, the drug most associated with the term "dime", is not a narcotic. This should be modified.

Is $10/gram standard? Also, I've heard many people incorrectly refer to half of an eighth of an ounce as a dime, regardless of price... this is probably because cheap marijuana is often sold in $20 eighths. For instance, most marijuana is sold at $50 an eighth around my parts, but many people still incorrectly call half of that a "dime", even though it would cost $25. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.118.123.65 (talk) 00:27, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Another meaning

Although I don't have any refrences, I know I and a lot of people i know use the word 'dime' sometimes in place of word's like cool, although it's usually used more with feminine things like an attractive woman, or a place (places are sometimes referred to as 'she' in AuE). I think this may be a strictly regional use, as I haven't heard anyone from a different area use 'dime' like this. Guitarhero91 02:53, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Weed isnt a narcotic. are you people dense?

[edit] slangily

Im pretty sure slangily isnt a word —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.31.133.169 (talk) 01:53, 6 April 2007 (UTC).

From dictionary.com:
slangily adverb
with slang; in a slangy manner; "he expresses himself slangily"

[edit] Formatting

The sort of bullet list in the intro seems a bit odd, maybe move it to the body at some point and turn into a proper bullet list and provide a more compact version of the primary usages in the intro? --86.128.252.182 05:23, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm curious, and have never found a reference to; What is the origin of the usage for assists in basketball? Informant obviously originated from the cost to use pay telephones before the price was raised.

[edit] Everlast

Everlast actually makes mention of "dime" to refer to an atractive female in hs song What It's Like" that predates the Yin Yang Twins' usage of terminology.

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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Cdn-dime-reverse.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 20:31, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Speculative etymology

At one time enforcement officials would tell their tipsters "If you have any information please drop us a dime."

Any cite for this? —Wiki Wikardo 18:07, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

The phrase "drop [me] a dime" traces back to US public payphones which charged 10¢ for a local call in almost all jurisdictions until the late 1970s (and in some areas beyond that). I know of no evidence that the usage originated with law enforcement, though. Rossami (talk) 23:00, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Merge or redirect

For all the well-researched content on this page, everything here is dictionary material, something that Wikipedia is not. Nothing here rises past what I would expect to read in a truly great unabridged dictionary. The definitions and usage discussions belong over in Wiktionary where folks with the right skills, interests and lexical tools can more easily sort out the meanings and origins.

Typical options to fix the page include:

  1. Expand the page with encyclopedic content - that is, content that goes well beyond the merely lexical.
  2. Redirect the page to a more general page on the appropriate sub-genre of slang.
  3. Replace the current contents with a soft-redirect to Wiktionary (usually done using the {{wi}} template).

Pending a better answer, I'm implementing option 3 for now. All the definitions described here are already on the Wiktionary page. What additional detail and usage examples are not already there can be easily incorporated. Rossami (talk) 23:24, 19 March 2008 (UTC)