English Dictionary

wooden nickel

名詞

アメリカ英語

A wooden token that is manufactured and distributed by a particular business as an advertising gimic or which can be exchanged for goods. Many wooden nickels have now become collector's items.

日本語の意味

特定の企業が広告目的で製造・配布する木製のトークンで、商品と交換できる場合がある。現在では収集品としても人気がある。

When I visited the old soda shop, the cashier handed me a wooden nickel that could be exchanged for a free soda.

昔ながらのソーダ店を訪れたとき、店員が無料のソーダと引き換えできる木製の広告トークンを手渡してくれた。

意味（1）

A wooden token that is manufactured and distributed by a particular business as an advertising gimic or which can be exchanged for goods. Many wooden nickels have now become collector's items.

Your Rivermont wooden nickel has tremendous purchasing power! Every customer on our mailing list has received a Rivermont wooden nickel.

意味（2）

(US) The smallest amount of money imaginable.

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.

意味（3）

A worthless replica of a coin, usually intended to defraud.

Don't take any wooden nickels warned innocents going abroad to steer clear of con artists.

意味（4）

Something that purports to be something other than it actually is, especially that purports to be more valuable than it actually is.

Another wooden nickel would be a husband returning totally on his terms, where his terms are that you do not deal with the relationship.

wooden nickels （ plural ）