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nickelodeon U.S.|nɪkəˈləʊdɪən|
[f. nickel n. 2; app. after melodeon.]
1. A theatre or motion-picture show for which the admission fee is a nickel; a place containing automatic machines to provide amusement, which can be used for a nickel. Also attrib.
1921Ladies' Home Jrnl. June 79/1 It is this class which first patronized the old nickelodeon, and undoubtedly it imposed its tastes and its traditions on the picture makers. 1927F. Hurst Song of Life 292 The nickelodeons and the gewgaw shops of the most terrific city in the world. 1930Time & Tide 27 Sept. 1206 The film was..handed over by the scientists to the ‘nickelodeons’ of America. 1938Encycl. Brit. Bk. of Year 422/2 The old nickelodeon programmes. 1939C. Morley Kitty Foyle 68 A dance floor and a nickelodeon piano. 1955G. Greene Quiet American 188 It must have belonged to the same era as the nickelodeon. 1973Publishers Weekly 10 Sept. 45/2 The development of American movies from nickelodeon days to the 1970s.
2. A ‘jukebox’; a machine that automatically plays selected gramophone records on the insertion of a coin. Also attrib.
1938Florida Review Spring 25/1 The requisites of a place entitling it to the name jook are..presence of the nickelodeon, and..of the dance-floor. 1949Sat. Even. Post 15 Jan. 88/3 A nickelodeon at the end of the street emits a tinny piano tinkle. 1957J. Frame Owls do Cry 76 Putting money in the nickelodeon. 1971Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 18 Aug. 8/2 The former shepherd boy who used a $4,000 nickelodeon as a springboard to the top. |