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 ]
nickel (n.)
plate with nickel; nickel the plate'