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nickel-and-dime
nickel-and-dime
See also: nickel and dime
English
Adjective
nickel-and-dime (comparative more nickel-and-dime, superlative most nickel-and-dime)
- Alternative spelling of nickel and dime
Verb
nickel-and-dime (third-person singular simple present nickels-and-dimes, present participle nickel-and-diming, simple past and past participle nickel-and-dimed or nickeled-and-dimed)
- Alternative spelling of nickel and dime
- 1998, Peter Biskind, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls (Simon & Schuster, p. 358)
- The business people began to nickel-and-dime him, no water cooler in the production office, that sort of thing.
- 1998, Peter Biskind, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls (Simon & Schuster, p. 358)