nickel-and-dime

English

Adjective

nickel-and-dime (comparative more nickel-and-dime, superlative most nickel-and-dime)

1. Alternative spelling of nickel and dime.

Verb

nickel-and-dime (third-person singular simple present nickel-and-dimes, present participle nickel-and-diming, simple past and past participle nickel-and-dimed)

1. Alternative spelling of nickel and dime.
   • 1998, Peter Biskind, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls (Simon & Schuster, p. 358)

     The business people began to nickel-and-dime him, no water cooler in the production office, that sort of thing.