Meaning of nickel in English
Verb
nickelDefinitions
1. plate with nickelExamples
- « nickel the plate »
Noun
nickelEtymology
mid 18th century: shortening of German Kupfernickel, the copper-colored ore from which nickel was first obtained, from Kupfer‘copper’ + Nickel‘demon’ (with reference to the ore's failure to yield copper)Definitions
1. a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosionExamples
- « 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
Examples
- « a nickel bag of drugs »
- « a nickel deck of heroin »