nickel-shaver

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nickel-shaver

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See shave a nickel.

noun nickel-shavers

colloquial, rare A miser. Well, in those days I used to hear about people who went to hotels for meals and even now and then attended a theatrical performance at a dollar or so a throw, and it once reached me that a second cousin of a friend of my sister's husband had actually put up at the Waldorf-Astoria for ten dollars a
Similar: nickel nurser, skinflint, carl, cheapass, cheapie, cheapskate, cheapo, churl, clutchfist, el cheapo, last of the big spenders, magpie

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@misc{nickel_shaver_2026,
  title = {nickel-shaver},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/nickel-shaver},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}