drop\ a\ dime

drop\ a\ dime
1. (drop a dime) (5508↑, 1141↓)
To [snitch] on someone. Often, to save their own ass. Comes from the old cost for a payphone call, ten cents.

"John got popped, so he dropped a dime on his supplier and they let him go."

2. (drop a dime) (200↑, 52↓)
To narc somebody out, like Huggy Bear always does on Starsky and Hutch.

Huggy Bear's always dropping a dime, I can't believe he's still alive.

3. (DROP A DIME) (144↑, 57↓)
To rat someone out. As in telling the police about a drug deal.

Imma drop a dime on these niggaz.

4. (DROP A DIME) (94↑, 37↓)
To tell on someone
5. (drop a dime) (52↑, 35↓)
1. To [snitch] on another individual, usually to report an illegal act to law enforcement. 2. To unknowingly waste an exceptional amount of money on something.

Drop a dime (verb): 1. "I can't get [bud] anymore because some [punk] [snitch] dropped a dime on my only supply." 2. "Damn, you see Juan's '84 Accord with 22 [dubs] on it? He dropped a dime on that [pos]."

6. (Drop a dime) (1↑, 11↓)
Mostly known in the adult industry, to describe the action of a women catching a man off-guard with her 'dime', in order to (hopefully) have sexual relations with him. Also referred to as a nickel dropper (adj). Sometimes called a 'dime piece'.

Girl: When he leasts expect it, I drop a dime on him. -- Guy: Don't hang around with her, she's a dime dropper. -- Rasheeda's 'Bubble Gum' song: "He wanna show off this prize piece, So drop them nickels off boy and get this dime piece."

7. (drop a dime) (9↑, 30↓)
To lose a good girl. To lose someone that you loved that was beautiful, that was a 10.

"You dropped your dime, so i picked it up." -Joe Means: You lost your girl (Often means did something stupid to lose her) so now she's my girl, now she's fair game. That is another way to say "drop a dime"

8. (drop a dime) (4↑, 26↓)
When a guy does something stupid/ idiotic to lose a perfect 10 or dime piece.

You did what? What a tool to drop a dime\!

9. (DROP A DIME) (104↑, 126↓)
to throw a nice pass; in basketball terms, an assist

yo check it Bibby just dropped another dime to Vlade\!

10. (drop a dime) (35↑, 58↓)
Simply to call someone on a phone. From when the cost of a pay phone was 10 cents, or a dime. You dropped a dime in the phone to make a call.

-Why are you so late? I was in traffic. -Pshh, why didn't you drop a dime and let me know\!

11. (DROP A DIME) (11↑, 124↓)
spend money

if you want a gal, sometimes you have to drop a dime on her

Related: snitch, call, dime, rat, tattle
Last updated: 2012.02.29

Urban English dictionary. 2013.

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