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: 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 note]
v : plate with nickel; "nickel the plate"
[also: nickelling, nickelled]