nickel

Meanings

Plural: nickels

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
- "a nickel bag of drugs"
- "a nickel deck of heroin"
A silvery elemental metal with an atomic number of 28 and symbol Ni.
A coin worth 5 cents.
Five dollars.
Five hundred dollars.
Interstate 5, a highway that runs along the west coast of the United States.
A playing card with the rank of five
A five-year prison sentence.
A defensive formation with five defensive backs, one of whom is a nickelback, instead of the more-common four.
An airborne propaganda leaflet.

Verb

plate with nickel
- "nickel the plate"
To plate with nickel.
To distribute airborne leaflet propaganda.

Adj

Synonym of cheap: Low price and/or low value.

Origin / 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.

Synonyms

atomic number 28, cheap, jitney, Ni, nickel note

Scrabble Score: 12

nickel is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
nickel is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
nickel is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 15

nickel is a valid Words With Friends word