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Nickel
Definitions
- 1 Synonym of cheap: Low price and/or low value. US, dated, idiomatic, not-comparable
"Let me give you the nickel tour of the office."
- 1 A surname originating as a patronymic.
- 1 A silvery elemental metal with an atomic number of 28 and symbol Ni. uncountable
- 2 a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar wordnet
- 3 A coin worth 5 cents. Canada, US, countable
"That is just objectively terrifying regardless of contexts! He looks like if a nickel did cocaine!"
- 4 five dollars worth of a drug wordnet
- 5 Five dollars. US, broadly, countable, slang, uncountable
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- 6 a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite wordnet
- 7 Five hundred dollars. US, broadly, countable, slang, uncountable
- 8 Interstate 5, a highway that runs along the west coast of the United States. US, countable, slang, uncountable
- 9 A playing card with the rank of five countable, slang, uncountable
- 10 A five-year prison sentence. US, countable, slang, uncountable
- 11 A defensive formation with five defensive backs, one of whom is a nickelback, instead of the more-common four. countable, uncountable
- 12 An airborne propaganda leaflet. UK, countable, uncountable
"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 were being dropped on Sicily and Italy."
- 1 To plate with nickel. transitive
- 2 plate with nickel wordnet
- 3 To distribute airborne leaflet propaganda. UK
"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."
Etymology
Borrowed from German Nickel, first used in a text by the Swedish mineralogist Axel F. Cronstedt as an abbreviation of Kupfernickel (“a mineral containing copper and nickel”), from Kupfer (“copper”) + Nickel (“insignificant person, goblin”), originally nickname of Nikolaus (“Nicholas”), due to the deceptive silver colour of the relatively valueless ore. Compare cobalt as related to kobolds.
Borrowed from German Nickel, first used in a text by the Swedish mineralogist Axel F. Cronstedt as an abbreviation of Kupfernickel (“a mineral containing copper and nickel”), from Kupfer (“copper”) + Nickel (“insignificant person, goblin”), originally nickname of Nikolaus (“Nicholas”), due to the deceptive silver colour of the relatively valueless ore. Compare cobalt as related to kobolds.
Borrowed from German Nickel, first used in a text by the Swedish mineralogist Axel F. Cronstedt as an abbreviation of Kupfernickel (“a mineral containing copper and nickel”), from Kupfer (“copper”) + Nickel (“insignificant person, goblin”), originally nickname of Nikolaus (“Nicholas”), due to the deceptive silver colour of the relatively valueless ore. Compare cobalt as related to kobolds.
One of the variant spellings of Nichol, a Middle English vernacular form of the given name Nicholas.
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