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nickel bags

nickel bags is the plural of nickel bag.

Meaning of nickel bag

Noun

nickel bag (plural nickel bags)

  1. (US, slang) A five-dollar baggie of narcotics, especially marijuana, typically a little under half a gram.
    • Often the junkie pusher will deal "nickel bags" at $5 each, as well as $3 "Treys."1965, James Mills, “The World of Needle Park”, in Life, volume 58, number 8, page 84

Questions about nickel bags

What is nickel bags the plural of?
Nickel bags is the plural of nickel bag.

Words near nickel bags in the dictionary

  1. nickel and dimes
  2. nickel and diming
  3. nickel back
  4. nickel backs
  5. nickel bag
  6. nickel bags
  7. Nickel Centre
  8. nickel chloride
  9. nickel nitrate
  10. nickel note
  11. nickel notes

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