Usually means: Metallic element used in alloys.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. nickel: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. nickel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nickel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nickel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. nickel: Vocabulary.com
  6. Nickel, nickel: Wordnik
  7. nickel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Nickel, nickel: Wiktionary
  9. nickel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. nickel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. nickel: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. nickel: Dictionary.com
  13. nickel: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. nickel: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Nickel (Canadian coin), Nickel (U.S. coin), Nickel (United States coin), Nickel (disambiguation), Nickel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Nickel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. nickel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. nickel: Rhymezone
  19. Nickel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. nickel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. nickel: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. nickel: Free Dictionary
  23. nickel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. nickel: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. nickel: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. nickel: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Body Piercing Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Coin Collecting Glossary (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. nickel: Financial dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Nickel (element), nickel: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Nickel: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Nickel (element), nickel: Medical dictionary
  6. Nickel: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. nickel: Idioms

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. nickel: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. NICKEL: The Mineral Gallery
  3. Nickel: Extragalactic Astronomy
  4. Nickel, nickel: WebElements Periodic Table of the Elements

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. nickel, nickel: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. The Nickel, nickel: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Metal Terminology (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Fastener Terms (No longer online)
  4. Nickel: Glossary of Mining Terms
  5. nickel: Coin Collecting
  6. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See nickeled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) A silvery elemental metal with an atomic number of 28 and symbol Ni.
noun:  (US, Canada, countable) A coin worth 5 cents.
noun:  (US, slang, by extension) Five dollars.
noun:  (US, slang, by extension) Five hundred dollars.
noun:  (US, slang, sometimes the nickel or the hot nickel) Interstate 5, a highway that runs along the west coast of the United States.
noun:  (slang) A playing card with the rank of five
noun:  (US, slang) A five-year prison sentence.
noun:  (American football) A defensive formation with five defensive backs, one of whom is a nickelback, instead of the more-common four.
noun:  (UK, World War II) An airborne propaganda leaflet.
adjective:  (US, idiomatic, somewhat dated) Synonym of cheap: Low price and/or low value.
verb:  (transitive) To plate with nickel.
verb:  (UK, World War II) To distribute airborne leaflet propaganda.
noun:  A surname originating as a patronymic.

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