Nickel meaning

What does “nickel” mean? Definitions, examples, synonyms and opposites.

“nickel” is a noun and verb with 4 meanings. Its most common meaning is: a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite.

nickel

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

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

  3. five dollars worth of a drug

    “a nickel bag of drugs”

    “a nickel deck of heroin”

    Synonymsnickel note

verb

  1. plate with nickel

    “nickel the plate”

Source: WordNet 3.1, Princeton University