Nickel Series (Nickel World Series)

When the New York Yankees play the New York Giants, or the Brooklyn Dodgers, or now the New York Mets in a baseball World Series, it's called a "Subway Series." The first three…

Nickel-and-Dime

Entry in progress -- B.P. Wiktionary: nickel and dimeAlternative forms. nickel-and-dimeEtymologyFrom the names of two US coins of small value.Adjectivenickel and dime1. (US, idiomatic, colloquial)…

Nicotini (nicotine + martini)

Many restaurants and bars throughout the world have banned smoking to eliminate second-hand smoke. Some enterprising individuals decided to try to put nicotine directly into the food and drinks.…

Nifty

Entry in progress -- B.P. "Nifty" is used in the financial terms "Nifty Fifty" and "Nifty Nine." "Nifty" is said in Wikipedia to mean "National Index…

Nifty Fifty

"Nifty Fifty" was a term popular in early 1970s to represent fifty growth stocks, with high price-to-earnings ratios, that drove the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The "Nifty…

Nifty Nine

The name "Nifty Fifty" referred to 50 popular large-cap stocks on the New York Stock Exchange in the 1960s and 1970s that were regarded as the major movers of the Dow Jones Industrial…

Nitery

Entry in progress -- B.P. Historical Dictionary of American Slangnitery n. Journ. a nightclub. Now colloq. or S.E.1934 Weseen Dict. Amer. Slang 147: Nitery -- A night club.1936 Esquire (Sept.) 159:…