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double-nickeling

double-nickeling is the present participle and gerund of double-nickel.

Meaning of double-nickel

Verb

double-nickel (third-person singular simple present double-nickels, present participle (US) double-nickeling or (UK) double-nickelling, simple past and past participle (US) double-nickeled or (UK) double-nickelled)

  1. To travel at 55 miles per hour.
    • Rose’s EarthCruiser – seven hundred thousand dollars’ worth of imported rolling steel, the best RV money could buy – led the parade. But slowly, just double-nickeling it.2013, Stephen King, Doctor Sleep, New York: Scribner, →ISBN, chapter 2, section 3, page 91

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Questions about double-nickeling

What is double-nickeling the present participle and gerund of?
Double-nickeling is the present participle and gerund of double-nickel.

Words near double-nickeling in the dictionary

  1. double-mindedly
  2. double-mindedness
  3. double-muscled
  4. double-nickel
  5. double-nickeled
  6. double-nickeling
  7. double-nickels
  8. double-nosed Andean tiger hound
  9. double-nosed Andean tiger hounds
  10. double-oblique
  11. double-page spread

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