Meaning

2 senses

  1. (US, slang)Fifteen years.

  2. (Canada, US, dated)A retail store selling inexpensive items, especially (originally, formerly) one in which all items had a price near a nickel (US five cents) or a dime (US ten cents).

    Near-synonym: dollar store (idiomatically synonymous in the 21st century)

Examples

1 sentences

  1. Don't let him nickel-and-dime you.

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Origin

From prison or criminal slang. After retail stores where "everything costs a nickel or a

From prison or criminal slang.

After retail stores where "everything costs a nickel or a dime".

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Forms

plural: nickel and dimes
Singularnickel and dime
Pluralnickel and dimes

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
five-and-dimedollar storefive and tenfive and dime

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
nicknickelnicknameB1nicotinenieceB1

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