nickels
Small copper-colored change
Nickels is the plural of nickel, a US five-cent coin.
The word appears in expressions about small amounts of money: nickels and dimes, not worth two nickels.
To nickel and dime someone is to charge for every small thing or to wear them down with petty costs: They nickel-and-dimed us on fees.
Third American president
- MonticelloVirginia presidential estate
- mintAromatic culinary herb
- circulationMovement through a system
- quartersAssigned living accommodations
dimes · pennies · pocket · change · jingle · piggybank · roll · wrapper
Gathering items over time
- BuffaloWestern New York city
- mintmarkCoin's facility indicator
- proofDemonstration of truth
- uncirculatedNever entered commerce
graded · slabbed · condition · rarity · auction · appraisal · authentication · album
Jefferson
Third American president
- MonticelloVirginia presidential estate
- mintAromatic culinary herb
- circulationMovement through a system
quarters · dimes · pennies · pocket · change · jingle · piggybank · roll · wrapper · slot
collecting
Gathering items over time
uncirculated · graded · slabbed · condition · rarity · auction · appraisal · authentication · album · catalog
five
Four plus one
purchase · affordability · cheap · small change · pittance · tipping · fare · price · cost · budget
alloy
Metallic combination
- copperReddish-brown metallic element
- zincElement thirty
- cupronickelCopper-nickel alloy
corrosion · tarnish · luster · weight · magnetic · composition · wartime · manganese · metallic · plating
- coinspennies, leu, silver eagles, ban, dimes
- coinage and related mattersminting, coins, currency, mint, pennies
- mintingcoinage, minter, coiner, mintmarks, die maker
- currencydollar, euro, pound, yen, peso
- kid moneyallowance, piggy bank, birthday money, lunch money, savings jar
- trivialitiestrivia, trifles, minutiae, small potatoes, peanuts
nickelsdollars
US monetary units
quarters · pennies · dimes · half-dollars · silver dollars
nickelspaper money
Currency in bill form
bills · banknotes · checks · credit cards · gold bars
- nickel and dimeDrain through small amounts
- nickel and dimedCharged many small fees
- nickel and dimingAccumulating small charges
- wooden nickelValueless commemorative token
- nickeled and dimedDepleted by trivial expenses
- nickel bagFive-dollar drug portion