Nickel - Definition

nickel

n 1: a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is
resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in
pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite [syn:
nickel, Ni, atomic number 28]
2: a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar
3: five dollars worth of a drug; "a nickel bag of drugs"; "a
nickel deck of heroin" [syn: nickel, nickel note]
v 1: plate with nickel; "nickel the plate"

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