nickel

Definition

  • noun: a hard silver-white metal
  • noun: a silver-white hard malleable ductile metallic element capable of a high polish and resistant to corrosion that is used chiefly in alloys and as a catalyst

Examples

  • Customers are being 'nickeled-and-dimed' by the cell phone company. [=customers are being charged extra small fees by the cell phone company that will add up to a lot of money over time]

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) and bust up a chifforobe for her. She give me the hatchet, and I broke it up. And then she said... "I reckon I'll have to give you a nickel, won't I?" And I said, "No, ma'am. There ain't no charge." And I went home. Mr Finch, that was way last spring, way over a year ago. (..)
    1962 To Kill a Mockingbird
  • (..) There's this old chifforobe in the yard... and I said... "You come in here, boy, and bust up this chifforobe... and l'll give you a nickel." So he come on in the yard... and I go in the house to get him the nickel... and I turn around and before I know it, he's on me. (..)
    1962 To Kill a Mockingbird