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Dime is still used as a teenage slang synonym for a beautiful woman. This stems from the 1979 movie ''10,'' starring Bo Derek, and is rooted in ''On a scale from 1 to 10, she's a 10. '' She is now a dime.
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Read More »Thanks to Jonathan Lighter's Historical Dictionary of American Slang, we have the activity that coined the phrase. Carl Van Vechter, one of the earliest modern dance critics and author of the 1926 novel ''Nigger Heaven'' -- a title nobody would use today -- described the scene in a taxi-dance hall: ''Sometimes a . . . couple would scarcely move from one spot. Then the floor manager would cry, Git off dat dime!'' To dance on a dime was to grind bodies tightly together in clothed but sexual contact, without moving from that spot; taxi dancers working for a dime (immortalized in the 1930 Lorenz Hart lyric ''Ten Cents a Dance'') were exhorted by their bosses to keep the customers moving. Thus, to get off the dime came to mean ''to get moving.'' (I get a kick out of finding that out. What a rich language we speak, often without knowing its resonances.) Dime is still used as a teenage slang synonym for a beautiful woman. This stems from the 1979 movie ''10,'' starring Bo Derek, and is rooted in ''On a scale from 1 to 10, she's a 10.'' She is now a dime. Behind a dime is an expression of suspicion. A Southernism in the mid-20th century was ''I wouldn't trust him behind a dime.'' A dime is not only small and difficult to hide behind, but also notably thin, as in the phrase not one thin dime. Extreme distrust is shown in behind a dime edgeways. Gangsters who wish to rat on their partners in crime with a telephone call to the police or F.B.I. have a linguistic problem. The slang phrase meaning ''to inform, betray'' used to be to drop a dime. However, it has been a long time since a call from a pay phone cost 10 cents; in recent years, the only Mafioso betrayers who used the phrase drop a dime were elderly and often short of change. There is as yet no known underworld lingo to express snitching by using a cellphone. (''Punch M for Murder'' was suggested here this spring. It has been scorned by Mafiosi.)
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