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nickel

noun verb

a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar

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Word Facts

Word length
6
Starts with
N
Ends with
L
Contains
IC
Scrabble score
12
Database source
OEWN 2025 Core

How it sounds

Pronunciation

ˈnɪ.kəl

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Meaning

Definitions

noun

  1. a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar

noun

  1. five dollars worth of a drug

    “a nickel bag of drugs”

noun

  1. a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite

verb

  1. plate with nickel

    “nickel the plate”

In context

Example Sentences

a nickel bag of drugs
a nickel deck of heroin
nickel the plate
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