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Dime
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DIME, money. A silver coin of the United States, of the value of one-tenth part of a dollar or ten cents.
     2. It weighs forty-one and a quarter grains. Of one thousand parts, nine hundred are of pure silver and one hundred of alloy. Act of January 18, 1837, s. 8 and 9, 4 Sharsw. cont. of Story's L. U. S. 2523-4.



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People will be dropping the dime on those they do not like anonymously from off base pay phones and anonymous email.
Gates nearly 30 years ago, doesn't stop police from dropping the dime on criminals who turn out to be here illegally.
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