Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A small, rudimentary movie theater that charged five cents for admission, popular in North America from about 1905 to 1915.
- n. A coin-operated player piano, often elaborated with percussion, banjos, bells, whistles, and other musical instruments and noise-makers.
- n. An American jukebox operated by nickels.
Etymologies
- From nickel, the United States five-cent coin, and odeon, which is the Greek word for a theatre. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Next Nickelodeon is going to start accepting advertising for beer, alcohol, and the most pornographic things allowed on tv. ikes”
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“Nickelodeon is moving forward with Earth to Pablo, a comedy about a family that receives an alien instead of the exchange student they were expecting.”
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“Nickelodeon is offering things like printable kids 'coloring activities for popular characters like Dora the Explorer.”
“Posted 'cause I just found it: Nickelodeon is changing their (25-year-old) splat logo to ... words.”
“On Tuesday, Nickelodeon is expected to announce the first of 600 original and exclusive games for its network of Web sites, as part of a $100 million investment in game development.”
“One of our artists, Doug Thompson, tells me that Nickelodeon is sponsoring a short animation film contest - deadline's June 1, so we better hurry up and finish.”
“Viacom, the parent company of MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon, is locked in a $1 billion copyright infringement suit against Google over video clips owned by Viacom that have appeared without authorization on YouTube.”
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“Notsomuch the situation, but the way Nickelodeon is handling it is all at once appalling and uncalled for to me.”
“Still curious, I called Nickelodeon, where I was told the clip was done for black history month (along with clips of other notable African-Americans) and had "no political overtones.”
“The other reason I always find a happy place at Nickelodeon is entirely due to the guard who works the parking garage gate there.”
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