What is the meaning of 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.
  • A United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar.
  • Five dollars worth of a drug.
    • usage: "a nickel bag of drugs"; "a nickel deck of heroin"

verb

  • Plate with nickel.
    • usage: "nickel the plate"
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