nickel

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/ˈnɪk.əl/

noun 5verb 2adj 1name 1

Collocations

ADJ.

gold, hard, heavy

The old nickel coins felt surprisingly heavy in my palm.

VERB + NICKEL

bought, fetched, found, give, got, iron, isn't, lead

I found a nickel under the couch cushions while cleaning yesterday.

NICKEL + NOUN

cocaine, everytime, five-cent, street

I found a nickel on the street and gave it to my little brother.

PREP.

between, in, out, with

I found a nickel between the cushions of the old sofa.

Definitions

noun

A silvery elemental metal with an atomic number of 28 and symbol Ni.

A coin worth 5 cents.

That is just objectively terrifying regardless of contexts! He looks like if a nickel did cocaine!

Five dollars.

Five hundred dollars.

Interstate 5, a highway that runs along the west coast of the United States.

adj

Synonym of cheap: Low price and/or low value.

Let me give you the nickel tour of the office.

verb

To plate with nickel.

To distribute airborne leaflet propaganda.

The 422d Bombardment Squadron extended the scope of its operations considerably in April and "attacked" Norwegian targets with the leaflet bomb. The number of cities nickeled per mission also increased until it was common for fifteen to twenty-five to be scheduled as targets for a five-plane mission.

We flew numerous nickeling missions over the population centers of Southern France, dropping thousands of pounds of leaflets.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is re

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

nickel and dime

Small time; operating on a small scale; involving small amounts of money; petty or cheap.

Near-synonyms: two-bit, ten-cent

not worth a plug nickel

Having no or almost no value; worthless.

In the screenplay by Lorenzo Semple Jr., and David Rayfiel, Turner very early on stumbles upon the existence of a kind of super-C.I.A. within the C.I.A., after which his life is no

nickel nurser

A miser.

nickel tour

Synonym of fifty-cent tour.

Our nickel tour doesn't do justice to GA mechanics, but even a longer explanation would leave us scratching our heads and asking how such simple operators might do anything useful,

you pays your nickel and you takes your choice

Alternative form of you pays your money and you takes your choice.

Example Bank

That is just objectively terrifying regardless of contexts! He looks like if a nickel did cocaine!

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Colonel Hazeltine still had trouble persuading air commanders to drop the nickels. Pilots profanely protested against risking their necks on such foolishness. But in the end 15,000,000 leaflets a week

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Many types of nickels were used in psychological warfare. Classified according to general purpose, there were strategic and tactical leaflets.

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Let me give you the nickel tour of the office.

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We flew numerous nickeling missions over the population centers of Southern France, dropping thousands of pounds of leaflets.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, nickel is marked as slang, dated, US, idiomatic, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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