nickels
nickels is the plural of nickel.
nickels is the third-person singular simple present indicative of nickel.
Meaning of nickel
Noun
nickel (countable and uncountable, plural nickels)
- A silvery elemental metal with an atomic number of 28 and symbol Ni.
- A coin worth 5 cents.
- That is just objectively terrifying regardless of contexts! He looks like if a nickel did cocaine!2017 October 8, “Confederacy”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 26, John Oliver (actor), via HBO
- Synonyms:
- jitney
- Five dollars.
- Five hundred dollars.
- Interstate 5, a highway that runs along the West Coast of the United States.
- A playing card with the rank of five.
Proper noun capitalized: Nickels
Nickels
- A surname originating as a patronymic.
Origin of nickels
One of the variant spellings of Nichols, from Nichol, a Middle English vernacular form of the given name Nicholas + the suffix -s.
Phrases with nickels
- V nickels
- plug nickels
- Raney nickels
- wooden nickels
- plugged nickels
- nickels and dimes
- don't take any wooden nickels
- threw nickels around like manhole covers
- throw nickels around like manhole covers
- thrown nickels around like manhole covers
- throws nickels around like manhole covers
- throwing nickels around like manhole covers
Questions about nickels
- What does nickels mean?
- Nickels means a surname originating as a patronymic.
- What is nickels the plural of?
- Nickels is the plural of nickel.
- What part of speech is nickels?
- Nickels is a proper noun.
Words near nickels in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: nickels (page history and authors); Nickels (page history and authors); nickel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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