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Dime or DIME may refer to:

Dime (Canadian coin), ten cents
Dime (United States coin), ten cents
Dime Bag, slang for ten dollars worth of Marijuana
Dime (basketball), an assist in basketball
Dime (album), the third Spanish album from Guardian
"Dime" (song), the Spanish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003, performed by Beth
Dime (slang), numerous slang uses of the term
Dime language, spoken in Ethiopia
Dime novel
Dime Piece, LiLana song
Dime Bar, a chocolate bar
Number One Dime, an artifact of the fictional Scrooge McDuck universe
The dime formation in American football, a defensive formation
Dense Inert Metal Explosive (DIME), weapon
Direct Internet Message Encapsulation, a computer communications protocol
Dual Independent Map Encoding, a data storage format used by the US census
The DIME Model of state power
The Dimes, an American pop band
Dimebag Darrell, band member from Pantera

1911 encyclopedia

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From LoveToKnow 1911

DIME (from the Lat. decima, a tenth, through the O. Fr. disme), the tenth part, the tithe paid as church dues, or as tribute to a temporal power. In this sense it is obsolete, but is found in Wycliffe's translation of the Bible - "He gave him dymes of alle thingis" (Gen. xiv. 20). A dime is a silver coin of the United States, in value io cents (English equivalent about 5d.) or onetenth of a dollar; hence "dime-novel," a cheap sensational novel, a "penny dreadful"; also "dime-museum."