double nickels

slang The speed limit of 55 miles per hour. "Nickel" refers to the US five-cent coin. Whoa, whoa, cool it with the double nickels—the speed limit here is 25!

double nickels

and double buffalo

n. the number fifty-five; the fifty-five-mile-per-hour speed limit. (Originally citizens band radio. The buffalo is on one side of the nickel.) You’d better travel right on those double nickels in through here. The bears are hungry. Double buffalo is for trucks. You can go seventy.

See also: double, nickel

McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

See also:

double buffalo
clock (someone or something) at (a certain speed)
clock at
go to the limit
limit
be the (absolute) limit
be the limit
sky's the limit, the
the sky’s the limit
the sky's the limit

References in periodicals archive

Released at the same time as (and as a good-natured challenge to) SST labelmate Husker's two-disc "Zen Arcade," the Minutemen's 48-track 1984 "Double Nickels on the Dime" was a revelation for many.

We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen

词组	double nickels
释义	double nickels double nickels slang The speed limit of 55 miles per hour. "Nickel" refers to the US five-cent coin. Whoa, whoa, cool it with the double nickels—the speed limit here is 25! See also: double, nickel Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. double nickels and double buffalo n. the number fifty-five; the fifty-five-mile-per-hour speed limit. (Originally citizens band radio. The buffalo is on one side of the nickel.) You’d better travel right on those double nickels in through here. The bears are hungry. Double buffalo is for trucks. You can go seventy. See also: double, nickel McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions See also: double buffalo clock (someone or something) at (a certain speed) clock at go to the limit limit be the (absolute) limit be the limit sky's the limit, the the sky’s the limit the sky's the limit References in periodicals archive Released at the same time as (and as a good-natured challenge to) SST labelmate Husker's two-disc "Zen Arcade," the Minutemen's 48-track 1984 "Double Nickels on the Dime" was a revelation for many. We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
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