wooden nickel
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.70 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A wooden token that is manufactured and distributed by a particular business as an advertising gimmick or which can be exchanged for goods, many of which have now become collector's items.
Example Sentences
- "Your Rivermont wooden nickel has tremendous purchasing power! Every customer on our mailing list has received a Rivermont wooden nickel."
- "A wooden nickel can be round or rectangular, and if round, of any size from a nickel or smaller up to a dollar or larger ."
- "In a coin catalogue, recently came across a wooden nickel issued it Cape Parry . On one side is an Indian's head and the words ' wooden nickel '. On the other side is ' Cape Parry Dewline'."
- "It took quite some time to collect enough wooden nickels to equal anything of value. And what many customers didn't realize was that everything in the "wooden nickel" stores was priced higher than anywhere else."
- "One of the souvenirs of the time was the traditional wooden nickel, actually made of thin balsa and redeemable for cash at the Blairstown Press office."
- "His patients, on the other hand, were precisely such people as recognized that without self-understanding, without direction, without health of the inner as of the outer man, life was not worth a wooden nickel."
Usage
- American usage