a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite

[ Syn: ni , atomic number 28 ]

a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar

five dollars worth of a drug; a nickel bag of drugs; a nickel deck of heroin

[ Syn: nickel note ]

plate with nickel; nickel the plate'