In basketball, what does 'dropping dimes' mean?

"Dropping Dimes" means, either accumulating a lot of assists, or setting other players up in a clever manner. It probably has stems from the old saying "drop a dime" meaning to connect with a person via telephone (at a point in time when payphone a were popular it cost a dime to use). It's used commonly. read more

Headline -- The more likely answer here is that handing out a dime or a dropping a shiny dime comes from the fact that the rich used to actually hand out dimes to help the poor in tough times. Rockefeller, for one, was known to hand out new "shiny dimes" on street corners. read more

This means to snitch on someone or to turn them in. Back when phone calls were only a dime, people would DROP A DIME into the pay phone, possibly anonymously to police. Thus Dropping Dimes got someone arrested or snitched on. read more