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alt. (context chiefly US colloquial English) A nearly worthless amount. n. (context chiefly US colloquial English) A nearly worthless amount.
Usage examples of "plug nickel".
My only witness is on the excitable side, and her credibility's not worth a plug nickel.
Somehow just a few lousy green plants that wouldn't bring a plug nickel on anyone's market were a menace to Jerry G.
But we searched there for hours after I found the coin and didn't find so much as a plug nickel.
I wouldn't give you a plug nickel to be aboard the Hermann Goring right now, either.
If the Cubans got ahold of the SEALs, Tombstone wouldn't give a plug nickel for their chances of survival.
It's obvious all his talents are in obstetrics, his predictions aren't worth a plug nickel.
I wouldn't have bet a plug nickel there was anyone on the planet stupider than Kevin Fitzgerald Buchanon, but now I ain't so sure!