nickel-and-dime

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1. Alternative spelling of nickel and dime

nickel-and-dime (third-person singular simple present nickels-and-dimes, present participle nickel-and-diming, simple past and past participle nickel-and-dimed or nickeled-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.