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
   - 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"
   - nickel note

1. Plate with nickel
   "nickel the plate"

Derived forms: nickels, nickelling, nickelled, nickeling, nickeled

Type of: coin, five dollar bill [US], fiver [US], five-spot [US], metal, metallic element, plate

Part of: garnierite, millerite, pentlandite, smaltite

Encyclopedia: Nickel

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