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Nickel

noun

A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite. Synonyms: atomic number 28, Ni.

A United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar.

Five dollars worth of a drug. Synonym: nickel note. "A nickel deck of heroin"

verb

Plate with nickel.

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"Nickel" Quotes from Famous Books

... a meetin'-house down near us that we go to sometimes. Flamingus and me and Gus give a nickel apiece towards gittin' a malodeyon fer it, but it squeaks orful. 'Tain't much like the orchestry to the theayter. And then the preacher he whistles every time he says a word that has an 's' in it. You'd orter hear him say: 'Let us sing the ...

— Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley • Belle K. Maniates

... into the dead man's pocket, and drew out a small nickel-plated revolver. One chamber of it ...

— A Rogue by Compulsion • Victor Bridges

... A nickel tea-pot and a solitary tumbler stood on the table with its white cloth falling in straight folds. The ticking of the clock ...

— Tales of the Wilderness • Boris Pilniak

... 448, 449, 450).—So called because it is worked on a kind of large steel hairpin or fork with two or more prongs. Wooden and nickel varieties of this implement, which are patented by Mme Besson, of ...

— Encyclopedia of Needlework • Therese de Dillmont

... for you-all from Mr. Stamford at the dee-po," said the boy. "He allowed maybe you-all'd gimme a nickel for bringin' hit." ...

— The Quickening • Francis Lynde

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