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US
/ˌnɪkɪˈɫoʊdiən/
]
[ UK /nˌɪkɪlˈəʊdɪən/ ]
[ UK /nˌɪkɪlˈəʊdɪən/ ]
NOUN
- a cabinet containing an automatic record player; records are played by inserting a coin
How To Use nickelodeon In A Sentence
- Grimy back alley flophouses, squalid arcades lined with girlie nickelodeons and a neon-lined skid row lend the picture an air of authenticity.
- In working class neighborhoods, children and teenagers flocked to the cheap storefront movie theaters, called nickelodeons, where even at night only a minority of the audience were adults.
- Well, it's based on this Tijuana nickelodeon machine.
- An equivalent system is the punched-hole stack of connected cards used in a pianola, or the rotating slotted-metal disk in a nickelodeon, where the music is being played in response to the arrangement of the holes.
- Keke Palmer is one of the highest paid teen TV actresses and is raking in an estimated $20, 000 an episode for her Nickelodeon show.
- Apparently based on the first season of the acclaimed Nickelodeon cartoon Avatar: the Last Airbender, the film is a structural disaster, choppily bouncing from one brief expositional scene to another. Scott Mendelson: HuffPost Review: The Last Airbender (2010)
- Another sound in the nickelodeons was the murmur of immigrant voices translating aloud the titles into the languages of Europe.
- I now have hopes for Nickelodeon to return to something like the glory it enjoyed during my childhood.
- Marcus Loew, onetime furrier and currently owner of a group of nickelodeons, had come on the scene, combining live acts and two-reelers at his New York showcase, Loew's State.
- This sounds like I'm describing the days of crystal-set radios and hand-cranked nickelodeons, I know.