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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(US slang) The national speed limit of 55 miles per hour introduced in the USA in 1974..
But in 1982 they found a loophole: Keep the double-nickel speed limit, but effectively allow motorists to drive up to 65 by designating that speed a “waste of a finite resource” and setting the fine at $15.
Peckinpah is just as interested in the old golf-cart codger who says “Damn the double-nickel!” (in reference to the 55mph speed limit) as he is in Duck or Lyle, and much more so than in Ali MacGraw’s character, along for the ride and marquee value.
This night was insane. Knicks win, Sixers win, Wolves win. Kyrie drops a double-nickel.
Rose’s EarthCruiser – seven hundred thousand dollars’ worth of imported rolling steel, the best RV money could buy – led the parade. But slowly, just double-nickeling it.
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Double-nickel means (US slang) The national speed limit of 55 miles per hour introduced in the USA in 1974..
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But in 1982 they found a loophole: Keep the double-nickel speed limit, but effectively allow motorists to drive up to 65 by designating that speed a “waste of a finite resource” and setting the fine at $15.
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