nickel
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
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.
Inflected forms:
form: nickels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nickels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: nickeling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: nickelling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: nickeled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: nickeled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: nickelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: nickelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: A silvery elemental metal with an atomic number of 28 and symbol Ni.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A coin worth 5 cents.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
countable
examples: That is just objectively terrifying regardless of contexts! He looks like if a nickel did cocaine!
gloss: Five dollars.
pos: noun
tags: US
broadly
countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: Five hundred dollars.
pos: noun
tags: US
broadly
countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: Interstate 5, a highway that runs along the west coast of the United States.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: A playing card with the rank of five
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: A five-year prison sentence.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: A defensive formation with five defensive backs, one of whom is a nickelback, instead of the more-common four.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An airborne propaganda leaflet.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
examples: Colonel Hazeltine still had trouble persuading air commanders to drop the nickels. Pilots profanely protested against risking their necks on such foolishness. But in the end 15,000,000 leaflets a week were being dropped on Sicily and Italy.
Many types of nickels were used in psychological warfare. Classified according to general purpose, there were strategic and tactical leaflets.
Nickels, the code-name for propaganda leaflets, were ordinary 8-1/2×11" sheets of paper either printed on both sides or folded in half and printed on all four sides. […] On most of our flights, after leaving the DZ or landing strip we distributed 150 to 450 pounds of nickels over designated areas, and a few of our missions were nickel runs only.
gloss: To plate with nickel.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To distribute airborne leaflet propaganda.
pos: verb
tags: UK
examples: The 422d Bombardment Squadron extended the scope of its operations considerably in April and "attacked" Norwegian targets with the leaflet bomb. The number of cities nickeled per mission also increased until it was common for fifteen to twenty-five to be scheduled as targets for a five-plane mission.
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.
Related words: kupfernickel
niccolite
nife
nitinol
false copper
garnierite
nickelling
pentlandite
Derived words: 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
nickelic
nickeliferous
nickeline
nickel-in-the-slot
nickel-iron
nickelisation
nickelise
nickelite
nickelization
nickelize
nickelless
nickellike
nickel nitrate
nickel note
nickel nurser
nickelocene
nickel ocher
nickel ochre
nickelodeon
Nickelodeon
nickelous
nickelphosphide
nickel-plate
nickel-plated
Nickel Plate Road
nickel pyrites
nickel regulus
nickel rich
nickel-rich
nickel ride
nickel salt
nickel silver
nickel-skudderudite
nickel spinel
nickel steel
nickel sulfate
nickel sulfide
nickel sulphate
nickel sulphide
nickel tetracarbonyl
nonanickel
nonnickel
not worth a plugged nickel
not worth a plug nickel
organonickel
plugged nickel
plug nickel
proto-nickel
radionickel
Raney nickel
renickel
tetracarbonylnickel
tetranickel
that and a nickel will buy you a cup of coffee
that and a nickel will get you on the subway
trinickel
V nickel
wooden nickel
you pays your nickel and you takes your chances
you pays your nickel and you takes your choice
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