dime
n. countablen. a perfect ten out of ten. People use this on the internet to describe someone who is extremely attractive.
n. a person perceived as being of the highest possible physical attractiveness, corresponding to a ten on a scale of one to ten. Highly informal and primarily used in digital or colloquial contexts.
She is a total dime.
The comment section was full of people calling the lead actress a dime after the trailer dropped.
From Middle English dime, from Anglo-Norman disme (“one tenth, tithe”) (modern French dîme), from Medieval Latin decima, from Latin decima (pars) (“tenth (part)”). Doublet of decim, decima, and decime.
From the use of the coin in a payphone to report a crime to the police. US payphones charged 10¢ in almost all jurisdictions until the late 1970s.
Commonly used with the intensifier 'total' or 'absolute' in informal speech.