nickel
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Is nickel a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of nickel?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (uncountable) A silvery elemental metal with an atomic number of 28 and symbol Ni.uncountable
2. (US, Canada, countable) A coin worth 5 cents.Examples: "That is just objectively terrifying regardless of contexts! He looks like if a nickel did cocaine!"Synonyms: jitneyCanadaUScountable
3. (US, slang, by extension) Five dollars.USbroadlycountableslanguncountable
4. (US, slang, by extension) Five hundred dollars.USbroadlycountableslanguncountable
5. (US, slang, sometimes the nickel or the hot nickel) Interstate 5, a highway that runs along the west coast of the United States.UScountableslanguncountable
6. (slang) A playing card with the rank of fivecountableslanguncountable
adj (English)
1. (US, idiomatic, somewhat dated) Synonym of cheap: Low price and/or low value.Examples: "Let me give you the nickel tour of the office."Synonyms: cheapUSdatedidiomaticnot-comparable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To plate with nickel.transitive
2. (UK, World War II) To distribute airborne leaflet propaganda.Examples: "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."; "We flew numerous nickeling missions over the population centers of Southern France, dropping thousands of pounds of leaflets."; "From southern Greece to northern Italy, nickeling supplied both occupied peoples and their occupiers with fairly frequent and generally accurate reports of the war — in many cases, their only authoritative source of information."UK
Definition source: Wiktionary