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Dimed

adj, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    (of an electric guitar or its amplifier) At volume setting 10 (the loudest). not-comparable, slang

    "1998 January 6, Rory McQuillan, "Gear: Does anyone use tone controls on their guitar?", bit.listserv.blues-l, Usenet, "I asked […] how they adjusted the tone controls on their guitars. They both told me the same thing, that they dimed 'em and adjusted their tone at the amp.""

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of dime form-of, participle, past

Etymology

Etymology 1

Presumably from dime (“the U.S. ten-cent coin”) + -ed.

Etymology 2

From the verb dime.

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