Definitions for nickel

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Spelling: [nik-uh l]

IPA: /ˈnɪk əl/

Nickel is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 92 anagrams from letters in nickel (ceikln).

Definitions for nickel

noun

1. Chemistry. a hard, silvery-white, ductile and malleable metallic element, allied to iron and cobalt, not readily oxidized: used chiefly in alloys, in electroplating, and as a catalyst in organic synthesis. Symbol: Ni; atomic weight: 58.71; atomic number: 28; specific gravity: 8.9 at 20°C.
2. a cupronickel coin of the U.S., the 20th part of a dollar, equal to five cents.
3. a nickel coin of Canada, the 20th part of a dollar, equal to five cents.

adjective

1. Slang. costing or worth five dollars:

verb (used with object)

1. to cover or coat with nickel; nickel-plate.

Origin of nickel

1745-55; Swedish, abstracted from kopparnickel German Kupfernickel niccolite, literally, copper demon (so called because though looking like copper it yielded none); Nickel demon, special use

Examples for nickel

"Some greeny that wants a nickel's worth of beans, I suppose," said one.

The driver meanwhile searched his pockets in vain for a nickel.

When the popsicle man came around, my mother gave me a nickel.

In them days, you could get two loaves of bread for a nickel.

Back then, when you made a movie that lost money, you lost every nickel.

Five cents, a nickel, a half-a-dime, the twentiethpotofadollah!

For every dollar of wealth owned by white folks in the United States today, black folks on average own less than a nickel.

I was already over forty, had hardly a nickel in my pocket and this was the biggest break in my life.

So I bought this nickel one, an' carted t'other off into the attic. '

When he came back she slipped a nickel upon the arm of his chair.