dime v.1
1. (US) vtr. to pass on information.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Arizona Dly Star (Tucson, AZ) Youth Beat 26 Dec. 8/3: Dime: To inform, to squeal, to rat. | |
| Hard Candy (1990) 138: They won’t dime you for the Sutton Place thing. It won’t fly. | |
| ‘Moral Midgetry’ Wire ser. 3 ep. 8 [TV script] Somebody should dime the brass about this thing. | |
| The Force [ebook] ‘Who dimed me?’. |
2. (US und.) vi. to inform against.
| Whiplash River [ebook] The old Kriol man who’d dimed them to Baby Jesus. |
In phrases
(US) to inform against.
| When Shadows Fall 10: ‘Ah laid this dynamite melon to the dude [...] And do you know that the nigga dimed me out to my ole man?’. | |
 | Casino Moon 236: ‘I don’t know, man. All I know’s I didn’t have anything to do with it. Maybe your old lady dimed you out. I just know it’s not my concern’ . | |
| Gutshot Straight [ebook] ‘I wonder why do you not make plea bargain?’ Shake shrugged. ‘Dime out the most dangerous lady on the West Coast?’. | |
| The Force [ebook] I wish he’d fucking shared it with me, Malone thinks. Given me a word [...] dimed me out, ratted on me to myself. |