Meaning of wooden nickel | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A wooden token that is manufactured and distributed by a particular business as an advertising gimmick or which can be exchanged for goods, many of which have now become collector's items.
2. The smallest amount of money imaginable.
   US
3. A worthless replica of a coin, usually intended to defraud.
4. Something that purports to be something other than it actually is, especially that purports to be more valuable than it actually is.
   figuratively

Examples

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

“A wooden nickel can be round or rectangular, and if round, of any size from a nickel or smaller up to a dollar or larger .”

“In a coin catalogue, recently came across a wooden nickel issued it Cape Parry . On one side is an Indian's head and the words ' wooden nickel '. On the other side is ' Cape Parry Dewline'.”

“It took quite some time to collect enough wooden nickels to equal anything of value. And what many customers didn't realize was that everything in the "wooden nickel" stores was priced higher than anywhere else.”

“One of the souvenirs of the time was the traditional wooden nickel, actually made of thin balsa and redeemable for cash at the Blairstown Press office.”

“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.”

“Renounce all personal pleasures and personal profit. It is all just pennies—or, as my young friend Julia would say, it's a wooden nickel.”

“I wouldn't be in your shoes for a wooden nickel.”

“Captain sure knew he was taking on two inexperienced greenhorns to round out the ship's full complement of eighteen men, officers and able seamen, and it wasn't costing him so much as a wooden nickel.”

“I think of Grandpa and Dad, who always asked us if we were having a silver dollar day or a wooden nickel one.”

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

“In fact, Dave Ferrie had laughed about Robert's scheme to cheat the transit system, giving me a wooden nickel so I'd always “have some change” that Robert couldn't stash away.”

“Wendell's goodhearted chuckle was as fake as a wooden nickel.”

“The rest of the report was nothing more than innuendo and slander, none of it provable and every word of it calculated to wreck any chance he had at conning a single tourist watching that broadcast out of so much as a wooden nickel.”

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

“The Illusionist recasts the Brandon story in Sparta, New York, and makes the Brandon character into an amateur magician who picks up women in the Wooden Nickel bar; the novel insists, in other words, that since Dean Lily is only a counterfeit man, “a wooden nickel,” he must seduce his unknowing heterosexual partners by using a deadly combination of charm and magic.”

“The crooks who stuck him with a mysterious horse of another color and a phoney bill of sale never told him they'd slipped him a wooden nickel, or a horse he'd never be able to sell.”

“He can't be trusted. Didn't you hear the awful Irish accent he put on when he was staring at you? He's a wooden nickel, for sure.”

“No one's perfect even if you believe I am seeking perfection and love, when real, and not just a wooden nickel, is not always something one wears on one's sleeve like a cheap arm patch bought at the second hand store.”

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