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.
Originally, a worn-out, coming-apart, or coverless baseball that was covered heavily with electrician's tape to extend its usefulness. (Early 20th century.)
We often played baseball all afternoon with nothing more than a nickel rocket if nobody could come up with an actual ball.
The ability girls and women have developed to hold several items at once in one hand. The skill has been developed due to the lack of pockets in women's clothing.
I thought she'd need multiple trips to carry her phone, keys, wallet, and Starbucks to her car since she needed the other hand to open the door, but she used her impressive girl grip to carry everything in one hand.