What is Droppin Dimes?
1.
In basketball a nice pass that results in an assists
Im like J. Kidd droppoing dimes ten cents a minute.
2.
To inform the police of a crime, from the time when a payphone worked on a dime, snitches would drop the dime and call the police.
We all had 25 cents when we did the crime, now you only got a nickel, you musta dropped a dime. --Papoose
Them young boys be droppin dimes over misdemenors.
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3.
Contacting the police and ratting out someone annonomously, referring to dropping a dime in a pay phone.... back when it used to be a dime.
"Someone's dropping dimes, son, the block iz hot! They know our every move!"
4.
to mack on someone of the opposite sex; takes place on the campus of MVNU
Dude! Check out Scotty P...hes droppin dimes on Heather
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