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[1] [2] [3] In 1983, Watson and Wall cofounded Drop-a-Dime, an anti-crime organization which operated a hotline through which tips were confidentially passed from citizens to Boston police and federal agencies. [1] [2] [3] The name was a reference to dropping a dime, slang for putting a coin into a payphone to inform police of a crime. [2]
Dime Store: From 5 & dime [8] Homosexual: A gay reference, as you cannot make a straight with a ten and a five in your hand. Five and Dime [48] From nickname "Dimes" as a dime is a United States coin worth 10 cents. A Five and Dime is a type of variety store. Merfs: A draw poker game where tens and fives are wild [30] Woolworths: The Five and ...
Five-and-dime, dime store, a store selling cheap merchandise; a dime a dozen, so abundant as to be worth little (UK: ten a penny); on a dime, in a small space ("turn on a dime", UK: turn on a sixpence) or immediately ("stop on a dime", UK: stop on a sixpence); nickel-and-dime, originally an adjective meaning "involving small amounts of money ...
drop (of liquid) several (fluid) ounces ("just a drop of tea, please") (meiotic usage) droplet (less than a milliliter) duck a score of zero by a batsman in cricket, supposedly derived from the zero-like shape of a duck's egg. Hence to "break one's duck": to score one's first run. c.f. US: "get the monkey off one's back" a term of endearment
Jukebox Hero", a song by Foreigner from their 1981 album 4 "Jukebox (Don't Put Another Dime)", a 1982 single song by The Flirts; Jukebox (Jamaaladeen Tacuma album), a 1988 album released by jazz musician Jamaaladeen Tacuma; Jukebox, a 1998 album by Midget; Jukebox (Bent Fabric album), a 2004 album by Bent Fabric
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An idiom is a common word or phrase with a figurative, non-literal meaning that is understood culturally and differs from what its composite words' denotations would suggest; i.e. the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words (although some idioms do retain their literal meanings – see the example "kick the bucket" below).
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