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drop a dime (三人称単数 現在形 drops a dime, 現在分詞 dropping a dime, 過去形および過去分詞形 dropped a dime)

1. (idiomatic, slang) To make a telephone call.
2. (slang, with on) To inform, to call the authorities (on).
   • 1995 September 13, Richard Price and Spike Lee, Clockers, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks; distributed by Universal Pictures, spoken by Rodney Little (Delroy Lindo), 00:27:05 from the start:

     We got a crowd of black, white customers, out-of-state license plates, what have you. Somebody gonna check that out. They gonna drop a dime on me, call 911. And you know with my jacket I can't go back to jail.

   • 2002 July 14, Rafael Alvarez, “One Arrest”, in The Wire, season 1, episode 7, HBO, spoken by Jimmy McNulty (Dominic West), 11:51 from the start:

     Who dropped a dime to that newspaper reporter, Your Honor?