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Definition of nickel-and-dime
nickel-and-dime
verb - transitive
- to impoverish someone through small expenses.
Citation from "I Can't Stan You", American Dad! (TV), Season 3 Episode 17 (2007) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.Last edited on Jul 17 2016. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 11 2009.
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| Definitions include: acronym for "assault and battery". | |
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| Definitions include: Cockney rhyme for ''believe''. | |
| Definitions include: to talk a lot but never take action. | |
| Definitions include: clumsy. | |
| Definitions include: better than all that. | |
| Definitions include: the best. | |
| Definitions include: without substance; all talk and no action. | |
| Definitions include: a lot of money. | |
| Definitions include: to get fouled in basketball and make the basket | |
| Definitions include: used to indicate an extreme condition or an excessive amount. | |
| Definitions include: et cetera. | |
| Definitions include: used to indicate an extreme condition or an excessive amount. | |
| Definitions include: a quantity between 1 and one order of magnitude lower than the quantity previously mentioned. | |
| Definitions include: interjection of agreement. | |
Other terms relating to 'dime': | |
| Definitions include: very common. | |
| Definitions include: a very attractive person; "a perfect ten". | |
| Definitions include: $10 of an illegal drug. | |
| Definitions include: to rat on someone | |
| Definitions include: an attractive female; "a 10". | |
| Definitions include: to inform the authorities (e.g. police) that someone was involved in a crime. | |
| Definitions include: To try to take advantage of or take for granted. | |
| Definitions include: rural US slang for a kiss. | |
Other terms relating to 'nickel': | |
| Definitions include: five dollars' worth of an illegal drug. | |
| Definitions include: $5 worth of drugs | |
| Definitions include: slang term for an unattractive woman, one whose face would appear to have been hit with a bag of nickels. | |
| Definitions include: rural US slang for a kiss. | |
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