(American football) A defensive formation with five defensive backs, one of whom is a nickelback, instead of the more common four.
(UK, World War II) An airborne propaganda leaflet.
(US, Canada, countable) A coin worth 5 cents.
(US, slang) A five-year prison sentence.
(US, slang, by extension) Five dollars.
(US, slang, by extension) Five hundred dollars.
(US, slang, sometimes the nickel or the hot nickel) Interstate 5, a highway that runs along the west coast of the United States.
(slang) A playing card with the rank of five
(uncountable) A silvery elemental metal with an atomic number of 28 and symbol Ni.
verb
(UK, World War II) To distribute airborne leaflet propaganda.
(transitive) To plate with nickel.
nickle
nickle
noun
Misspelling of nickel.
The European green woodpecker, Picus veridis.
pelick
pelick
noun
The American coot (genus Fulica).
pickel
pickle
pickle
noun
(Northern England, Scotland) A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.)
(Northern England, Scotland) A small or indefinite quantity or amount (of something); a little, a bit, a few. Usually in partitive construction, frequently without "of"; a single grain or kernel of wheat, barley, oats, sand or dust.
(baseball) A rundown.
(endearing) A mildly mischievous loved one.
(informal) A difficult situation; peril.
(metalworking) A bath of dilute sulphuric or nitric acid, etc., to remove burnt sand, scale, rust, etc., from the surface of castings, or other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their colour.
(often in the plural) Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
(slang) A pipe for smoking methamphetamine.
(uncountable) A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown
A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
A sweet, vinegary pickled chutney popular in Britain.
In an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the lights are mounted.
The brine used for preserving food.
verb
(Northern England, Scotland, transitive, intransitive) To eat sparingly.
(Northern England, Scotland, transitive, intransitive) To pilfer.
(historical) To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment.
(programming, in Python) To serialize.
(transitive) To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
(transitive, ergative) To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
relick
relick
noun
Archaic form of relic.
verb
(transitive) To lick again.
rickle
rickle
noun
(chiefly Scotland) A dilapidated or ramshackle building.
(chiefly Scotland) A loose, disordered collection of things; a heap; a jumble.
(chiefly Scotland) A small rick of grain.
(chiefly Scotland) An emaciated person or animal.
(chiefly Scotland) Any object in poor condition, particularly a vehicle.
sickle
sickle
adj
Shaped like the blade of a sickle; crescent-shaped.
noun
(agriculture) An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops.
Any of the sickle-shaped middle feathers of the domestic cock.
verb
(agriculture, transitive) To cut with a sickle.
(intransitive) Of red blood cells: to assume an abnormal crescent shape.
(transitive) To deform (as with a red blood cell) into an abnormal crescent shape.
sickly
sickly
adj
(obsolete) Marked by the occurrence of illness or disease (of a period of time).
(obsolete) Tending to produce disease or poor health.
(of a plant) Characterized by poor or unhealthy growth.
Appearing ill, infirm or unhealthy; giving the appearance of illness.
Associated with poor moral or mental well-being.
Frequently ill or in poor health.
Lacking intensity or vigour.
Not in good health; (somewhat) sick.
Shedding a relatively small amount of light; (of light) not very bright.
Tending to produce nausea.
adv
In a sick manner; in a way that reflects or causes sickness.
verb
(intransitive, rare) To become sickly.
(transitive, archaic, literary) To make (something) sickly.
skelic
slicks
slicks
noun
plural of slick
tickle
tickle
adj
(obsolete) Changeable, capricious; insecure.
noun
(Newfoundland) A narrow strait.
(cricket, informal) A light tap of the ball.
An itchy feeling resembling the result of tickling.
The act of tickling.
verb
(archaic) To be excited or heartened.
(intransitive) To feel titillation.
(intransitive, of a body part) To feel as if the body part in question is being tickled.
(transitive) To appeal to someone's taste, curiosity etc.
(transitive) To catch fish in the hand (usually in rivers or smaller streams) by manually stimulating the fins.
(transitive) To cause delight or amusement in.
(transitive) To touch repeatedly or stroke delicately in a manner which causes laughter, pleasure and twitching.
(transitive) To unexpectedly touch or stroke delicately in a manner which causes displeasure or withdrawal.
tickly
tickly
adj
Having an itchy sensation like that of being tickled.
Producing an itchy sensation like that of being tickled.