dimeless

English

Etymology

dime +‎ -less

Adjective

dimeless (not comparable)

  1. (US) Without a dime; broke.
    • 1975, Donald H. Dunn, Ponzi!: The Boston swindler:
      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.
    • 2000, Herbert Grossman, Emotional and behavioral problems in the classroom: a memoir:
      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...

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