dime novelists

Noun

dime novelist (plural dime novelists)

1. One who writes dime novels.
   • Innumerable anecdotes are related of his prowess, and the stories of his hairbreath^([sic]) escapes and dangerous adventures while hunting and trapping—stories which have formed the warp and woof of the exaggerations of the dime novelists—would fill a volume even larger than this.1873, John Frost, “William Cody.—‘Buffalo Bill.’—His Life and Adventures.”, in Frost’s Pictorial History of Indian Wars and Captivities, from the Earliest Record of American History to the Present...