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dimeless en · ADJ

Etymology

From dime + -less.

Meanings

  1. (US, not-comparable) Without a dime; broke.
    • Since my friends and I were usually dimeless, we had to choose between climbing the pool fence, hopping the subway turnstile, jumping off one of the docks... 2000, Herbert Grossman, Emotional and behavioral problems in the classroom: a memoir:
    • A bunch of dimeless promoters and sponges have been buzzing around him, the kind who can smell a sucker faster than a buzzard can sight a corpse. 1975, Donald H. Dunn, Ponzi!: The Boston swindler: