"dime dropper" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the idea of dropping a dime (coin) into a payphone to make a call.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dime droppers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "dime dropper (plural dime droppers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005, Richard F. Miller, A Carrier at War: On Board the USS Kitty Hawk in the Iraq War",
          "text": "Although this story predated the Kunkle episode, something told me that with dime-droppers afoot, both men and women naturally become more cautious. After all, informality could be misinterpreted, and as the Navy puts it, discovery in these cases is a \"career ender.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Abisai Estrella, A Reason for Retribution, page 193",
          "text": "We go to the streets, a few dime droppers just got released yesterday, they still might know something",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Jermar Jerome Smith, Shawty",
          "text": "All those submitted complaint forms from the snitches, rats, and dime droppers about us \"The Cash Bunch \" and our ruling profitable empire, marking us as nigger misfits, drug smuggling monkeys tarnishing the prestige omega oasis of Wilhelm Prep and what have you.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A snitch or informer."
      ],
      "id": "en-dime_dropper-en-noun-~G8EyzOc",
      "links": [
        [
          "snitch",
          "snitch"
        ],
        [
          "informer",
          "informer"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, slang) A snitch or informer."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "drop a dime"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "dime-dropper"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dime dropper"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From the idea of dropping a dime (coin) into a payphone to make a call.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dime droppers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "dime dropper (plural dime droppers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "drop a dime"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005, Richard F. Miller, A Carrier at War: On Board the USS Kitty Hawk in the Iraq War",
          "text": "Although this story predated the Kunkle episode, something told me that with dime-droppers afoot, both men and women naturally become more cautious. After all, informality could be misinterpreted, and as the Navy puts it, discovery in these cases is a \"career ender.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Abisai Estrella, A Reason for Retribution, page 193",
          "text": "We go to the streets, a few dime droppers just got released yesterday, they still might know something",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Jermar Jerome Smith, Shawty",
          "text": "All those submitted complaint forms from the snitches, rats, and dime droppers about us \"The Cash Bunch \" and our ruling profitable empire, marking us as nigger misfits, drug smuggling monkeys tarnishing the prestige omega oasis of Wilhelm Prep and what have you.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A snitch or informer."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "snitch",
          "snitch"
        ],
        [
          "informer",
          "informer"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, slang) A snitch or informer."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "dime-dropper"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dime dropper"
}