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double nickel
noun- fifty-five; five-fifty US, 1990
- Way it was, I got on the double-nickel with the load. — George V. Higgins, The Rat on Fire, p. 106, 1981
- Five fifty? It’s only double nickels. FIve fifty? — Ivan Doig, Ride With Me, Mariah Montana, p. 259, 1990
- What golfer and future PGA Tour winner once went microscopic with a double nickel, shooting an unheard-of 55 in the 1962 Premier Invitational in Longview, Texas? — Mike Towle, The Ultimate Golf Trivia Book, p. 52, 1999
- I want to electrify the crowd like Michael Jordan droppin’ a double nickel on the New York Knicks. — Todd Boyd, Young Black Rich and Famous, p. xii, 2003
- a ten-year prison sentence US
- You on parole for check writing now. That liquor will get you a double nickel. — James Lee Burke, Sunset Limited, p. 45, 1998
- “I was doing a double nickel in that fucking joint back in ’71 when the Shit Jumped Off–and I’m talkin’ about some serious shit.” — Jimmy Lerner, You Got Nothing Coming, p. 186, 2002
- fifty-five miles an hour, the speed limit imposed throughout the US by the federal government in 1974 US, 1976
- Way it was, I got on the double-nickel with the load. — George V. Higgins, The Rat on Fire, p. 106, 1981
- — Laurence Urdang, Names and Nicknames of Places and Things, p. 81, 1987
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