wooden nickel

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1. 1

   A wooden token that is manufactured and distributed by a particular business as an…

   A wooden token that is manufactured and distributed by a particular business as an advertising gimmick or which can be exchanged for goods, many of which have now become collector's items.

   • Your Rivermont wooden nickel has tremendous purchasing power! Every customer on our mailing list has received a Rivermont wooden nickel.
   • A wooden nickel can be round or rectangular, and if round, of any size from a nickel or smaller up to a dollar or larger .
   • In a coin catalogue, recently came across a wooden nickel issued it Cape Parry . On one side is an Indian's head and the words ' wooden nickel '. On the other side is ' Cape Parry Dewline'.
2. 2

   The smallest amount of money imaginable.

   • His patients, on the other hand, were precisely such people as recognized that without self-understanding, without direction, without health of the inner as of the outer man, life was not worth a wooden nickel.
   • Renounce all personal pleasures and personal profit. It is all just pennies—or, as my young friend Julia would say, it's a wooden nickel.
   • I wouldn't be in your shoes for a wooden nickel.
3. 3

   A worthless replica of a coin, usually intended to defraud.

   • Don't take any wooden nickels warned innocents going abroad to steer clear of con artists.
   • In fact, Dave Ferrie had laughed about Robert's scheme to cheat the transit system, giving me a wooden nickel so I'd always “have some change” that Robert couldn't stash away.
   • Wendell's goodhearted chuckle was as fake as a wooden nickel.
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      Something that purports to be something other than it actually is, especially that…

      Something that purports to be something other than it actually is, especially that purports to be more valuable than it actually is.

      • Another wooden nickel would be a husband returning totally on his terms, where his terms are that you do not deal with the relationship.
      • The crooks who stuck him with a mysterious horse of another color and a phoney bill of sale never told him they'd slipped him a wooden nickel, or a horse he'd never be able to sell.

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