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nickel

noun
/ˈnɪk.əl/

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.

  1. borrowed from Nickel

Definitions

  1. A silvery elemental metal with an atomic number of 28 and symbol Ni.

  2. A coin worth 5 cents.

    • That is just objectively terrifying regardless of contexts! He looks like if a nickel did cocaine!

  3. Five dollars.

  4. ›+ 10 more definitions

    1. Five hundred dollars.

    2. Interstate 5, a highway that runs along the west coast of the United States.

    3. A playing card with the rank of five

    4. A five-year prison sentence.

    5. A defensive formation with five defensive backs, one of whom is a nickelback, instead of…

      A defensive formation with five defensive backs, one of whom is a nickelback, instead of the more-common four.

    6. An airborne propaganda leaflet.

      • Many types of nickels were used in psychological warfare. Classified according to general purpose, there were strategic and tactical leaflets.

    7. Synonym of cheap

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

      • Let me give you the nickel tour of the office.

    8. To plate with nickel.

    9. To distribute airborne leaflet propaganda.

      • 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.

    10. A surname originating as a patronymic.

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Derived

allylnickel, Alumel, antimonial nickel, arsenical nickel, bismuth-nickel, Chromel, copper-nickel, cupro-nickel, cupronickel, dinickel, double-nickel, drop a nickel, ferronickel, ferronickelplatinum, hexanickel, hot nickel, if I had a nickel for every time, Nibral, nicad, Nichrome, nickel-and-dime, nickel and dime, nickel-antigorite, nickelate, nickelaustinite, Nickelback, nickel back, nickel bag, nickel-bloom, nickel bronze, nickel carbonyl, Nickel Centre, nickel chloride, nickel-chlorite, nickel glance, nickel green, nickel gymnite, nickel hydride, nickel hydroxide, nickelian · +59 more

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nickel. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA