When banks secretly charge and take money from you for stupid violations and penalties: ie ATM machines, limited checking, under the minimum balance of an account, etc. and usually result in pissing off their customers and gaining more money.
"Shit! I had $99.50 in my savings, but since the bank minimum is $100 for the account to stay active, they took out $4.50 in penalty fees!"
"Damn Tom, they're nickel and diming your ass!"
noun 1. a person who is stingy and miserly. reluctant to give or spend; not generous; niggardly; penurious.
verb (used without object) 2. to act in a stingy or miserly way. scanty or meager.
1. (noun) Donald Trump bought Ed McMahon's house to save it from foreclosure and then leased it back to him! Ed McMahon is a real nickel rocket!
2. (verb) DC from marketing put me on a southwest flight, he is really nickle rocketing my travel plans.
3. (verb) CC took me to his private golf course on Saturday. He nickel rocketed the driving range golf ball machine by using a fake slug that jammed the ball dispenser.
(n)1. An allegedly delicious and wholesome sauce used widely by families across the Continental U.S. This nutrient rich formula provides the energy and nourishment that an utter and complete idiot needs to get through his/her day. The culinary scientists who discovered this revolutionary milestone in scientific saucehistory have been hailed as the Einsteins of this century's scientific and culinary communities, global.
"Ey there Cletis I done just ate me a whole bag a nickelsauce."
"Well then there Jethro I reckon that must've been some damn good nickelsauce then wadn't it?"
"Yee haw! I sure do love me some nickelsauce."
"Say there Jethro what's in that there nickelsauce you got there?"
"Nickels, and lots of em."