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nickel
 
Noun nickel has 3 senses
  1. 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
    --1 is a kind of metallic element, metal
    --1 is a substance of garnierite; millerite; pentlandite; smaltite
    Derived form: verb nickel1
  2. nickel - a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar
    --2 is a kind of     coin
  3. nickel, nickel note - five dollars worth of a drug; "a nickel bag of drugs"; "a nickel deck of heroin"
    --3 is a kind of fiver, five-spot, five dollar bill
Verb nickel has 1 sense
  1. nickel - plate with nickel; "nickel the plate"
    --1 is one way to     plate
    Derived form: noun nickel1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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