nickel
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈnɪkəl/
- US
:
moneda de cinco centavos (EE. UU.)
- She collects old coins, and her favorite is a rare buffalo nickel.
- save every nickel
- nickels and dimes
Tiny little dot, like the size of a a nickel a dime.
- Tiny little dot, like the size of a a nickel a dime.
- I sold newspapers Saturday Evening Post for a nickel.
- And we would often at Uncle John and Aunt Mary's place, the cards would come out, we'd get out, you know, pennies and nickels and Dimes and play for small sums.
- And when I used to pay for gas, man, roll in there with a hot sock full of nickels, fucking drop them on the counter, walk out.
- I was given this book when I didn't have a nickel to my name. Think and grow rich. My life has changed dramatically since then.
- And guys, you don't have two nickels do anyway.
- You know, even when the Corona, I still had nickels coming.
- They use match heads and they get a coin and shape off the what cause that mineral on a coin like a nickel and and they and they make gunpowder.
- The New Way things Work No Nickel and dimed on not getting by in America, No Nights by.
Examples
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A dime, a nickel, a penny.
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Michael and I followed the voice and paid a nickel each to go inside.
Fiction book (1991) -
But I do think that the nickel will add rather than take away to the overall fix.
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And so once one year, I sent him a nickel so, but it was a special nickel.
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Here, take the nickel and call her.
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Boys, if I had a nickel for every time I heard that one.
Fiction book (1995) -
I'd never even seen a nickel before I came here.
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For months, the flags had been sold for a nickel apiece in the dry goods store.
Fiction book (1992) -
Annie counts out the change while the lady watches every nickel and dime drop into her hand.
Fiction book (1992) -
Nobody's gonna drive this lousy freeway when they can take the Red Car for a nickel.
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
A strong steel alloy with chromium and nickel that resists rust and stays flexible at different temperatures
- Specialized
A metal made from copper, nickel, and zinc that looks like silver and is used for knives and forks
- Specialized
Metal made by adding nickel to steel so it resists rust and is very strong
- Specialized
A metal made mainly of nickel that resists very high heat and chemical damage
- Specialized
A strong metal you get by mixing copper and nickel that resists corrosion
A warm metal color for paint and fixtures that looks like metal you get by mixing copper and nickel
A rechargeable battery that uses nickel and cadmium to store electricity
A strong rechargeable battery made from nickel and iron that lasts many charges
- Specialized
A battery you can charge again made from nickel and iron that lasts a long time
How Valuable
- Archaic
1
9.9
- Archaic
4
9.9
- Archaic
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- US
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- US
142
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950
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Nickel The word nickel for the five-cent coin comes from the metal it is made of. The metal's name came from German miners who called a copper-looking ore Kupfernickel, which they meant as 'false copper' or 'Old Nick's copper' because it did not give real copper, so the coin is named after the metal and is worth 'five' cents.