dime, again

[Victor Steinbok]

In case anyone cares, I'm still on the lookout of instances of "dime" in
live speech. At half-time of Clippers-Spurs game, just now, during the
recap of the Indiana-Miami game earlier, in response to a particular
highlight dunk, one of the commentators, and I can't tell which one,
exclaimed, "That's a dime!" Presumably this did not refer to a lob pass
(although that was involved as well), but to the meaning of "dime" or
"dime piece" noted in Psych (which I reported earlier)--"a perfect ten".

Another report from the same broadcast in a few minutes--still need to
check a few references.

     VS-)

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