diming
SayDY-ming/ˈdaɪmɪŋ/
- 1Present participle and gerund of dime.
The witness avoided diming on anyone, fearing retaliation later.
Diming out a colleague to management cost her every friendship in the office.
Note
An American slang participle with two unrelated jobs. In one it names informing: someone diming on a neighbor or diming out a coworker is turning them in, often anonymously. Among guitarists it means something louder, running an amplifier at 10, typically the top of the dial. Like other verbs ending in a silent e, dime drops the e before -ing, and one spelling serves as both participle and gerund.
diming is a form of dime
dime, verb: To inform on someone to the authorities, especially anonymously. Full entry
- Spelling
- dime → diming: drop the e, add -ing
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