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Meaning of 'nickel' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Nickel [ n.]
- A bright silver-white metallic element. It is of the iron group, and is hard, malleable, and ductile. It occurs combined with sulphur in millerite, with arsenic in the mineral niccolite, and with arsenic and sulphur in nickel glance. Symbol Ni. Atomic weight 58.6.
- A small coin made of or containing nickel; esp., a five-cent piece.

Meaning of 'nickel' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . nickel [ n]
Meaning (1):
- five dollars worth of a drug
Example in sentence:
  • a nickel bag of drugs;
  • a nickel deck of heroin
2 . nickel [ v]
Meaning (2):
- plate with nickel
Example in sentence:
  • nickel the plate

Nearby Words:

nicagua nicaragua wood niccolite nice nicely nicene niceness nicery niceties nicety

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