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double-nickel

noun 2
verb 1
forms 5

noun2

(US, slang) The national speed limit of 55 miles per hour introduced in the USA in 1974.
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(US, slang) The number 55 (by extension).
- This night was insane. Knicks win, Sixers win, Wolves win. Kyrie drops a double-nickel. — 2015

verb1

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To travel at 55 miles per hour.
- Rose’s EarthCruiser – seven hundred thousand dollars’ worth of imported rolling steel, the best RV money could buy – led the parade. But slowly, just double-nickeling it. — 2013

forms

double-nickeled · double-nickelled · double-nickeling · double-nickelling · double-nickels

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