nickel-and-dime

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English

Pronunciation

Adjective

nickel-and-dime (not comparable)

  1. 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)

  1. Alternative spelling of nickel and dime
    • 1998, Peter Biskind, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Simon & Schuster, page 358:
      The business people began to nickel-and-dime him, no water cooler in the production office, that sort of thing.
    • 2016 May 5, “How New York Can Put an End to the Plastic Bag”, in The New York Times:
      Advocates for the poor have long resisted various cities’ efforts to crack down on bags — whether by charging fees or banning them — as a regressive tax on shoppers who can’t afford to be nickel-and-dimed every time they get groceries.