Overview of noun nickel

The noun nickel has 3 senses

• nickel, Ni, atomic number 28 -- (a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite)


• nickel -- (a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar)


• nickel, nickel note -- (five dollars worth of a drug; "a nickel bag of drugs"; "a nickel deck of heroin")

Overview of verb nickel

The verb nickel has 1 sense

• nickel -- (plate with nickel; "nickel the plate")