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 fakeslug 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.
when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.
This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.