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"ref": "2007 05, Ted McClelland, Horseplayers: Life at the Track, Chicago Review Press",
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"A thousand dollars."
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"ref": "2007 September 23, David Bowman, “Torchlit Crit”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
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"A ten year prison sentence."
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"ref": "2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG",
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"ref": "2008, “House Music”, in Afterparty Babies, performed by Cadence Weapon",
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"(US, Canada) A coin worth one-tenth of a dollar."
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"An assist."
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"A playing card with the rank of ten."
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"(slang) A playing card with the rank of ten."
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"Ten dollars."
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"(slang) Ten dollars."
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"ref": "2007 05, Ted McClelland, Horseplayers: Life at the Track, Chicago Review Press",
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"ref": "2007 September 23, David Bowman, “Torchlit Crit”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
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"A ten year prison sentence."
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"(slang) A ten year prison sentence."
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"text": "Are you traveling on the company's dime?",
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"Payment responsibility."
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"(slang) Payment responsibility."
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"ref": "2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG",
"text": "Make a couple of nuns a couple of dimes.",
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{
"ref": "2008, “House Music”, in Afterparty Babies, performed by Cadence Weapon",
"text": "Wait in line for drinks, it’s another time out / Made out on the floor with a couple dimes",
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}
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"roman": "moneta ot 10 centa",
"sense": "a coin worth one-tenth of a dollar",
"word": "монета от 10 цента"
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"code": "yue",
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"sense": "a coin worth one-tenth of a dollar",
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"sense": "a coin worth one-tenth of a dollar",
"word": "dubbeltje"
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"sense": "a coin worth one-tenth of a dollar",
"word": "10 sentin kolikko"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "a coin worth one-tenth of a dollar",
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"sense": "a coin worth one-tenth of a dollar",
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"sense": "a coin worth one-tenth of a dollar",
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"sense": "a coin worth one-tenth of a dollar",
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"lang": "Navajo",
"sense": "a coin worth one-tenth of a dollar",
"word": "dootłʼizh"
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"sense": "a coin worth one-tenth of a dollar",
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],
"word": "моне́та в 10 центов"
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"sense": "a coin worth one-tenth of a dollar",
"word": "десятице́нтовик"
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"sense": "a coin worth one-tenth of a dollar",
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"masculine"
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"word": "kovanec za deset centov"
},
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"code": "srn",
"lang": "Sranan Tongo",
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"text": "Somebody dimed on me and I got arrested for selling marijuana.",
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"word": "rat out"
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"text": "I get the best-sounding sustain and smooth harmonic distortion when I run the amp dimed.",
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"To operate an audio amplifier (especially an electric guitar amplifier) at level \"10\" (typically the highest amplification level)."
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