nickel

adj 1: costing 5 dollars; slang for the price of unlawful drugs; "a

nickel bag"

2: priced at 5 cents; "I can still remember when a nickel

ice-cream cone cost only 10 cents"

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: {Ni}, {atomic number 28}]

2: a US coin worth one twentieth of a dollar

v : plate with nickel; "nickel the plate"

nickle

/ni'kl/ ["nickel", common name for the US 5-cent coin] A

{nibble} : 1; 5 bits. Reported among developers for Mattel's

{GI 1600} (the {Intellivision} games processor), a chip with

16 bit-wide {RAM} but 10 bit-wide {ROM}. See also {deckle}.