I'd have to check out the nearest pay phone and see if it still had a nickel slot), I turned to find myself eyes-to-Adam's apple with Sheriff Crawford.

If they were, you can be sure they would explain why it's as American as nickel slots and scratch-off games.

These cars had specially designed stashes, hidden compartments you opened by simultaneously hitting the windshield wipers, the defrost, and the nickel slot of the coin-holder.

Billboard called the song " wildly infectious", and "as addictive as nickel slots".

A nickel slot makes the house about $100 a day, a $1 slot $221 and a $5 slot about $471 a day, the gaming commission says.

"Too many nickel slots--cuts your profit margin."

In the spring of the following year, steps began to make coin operation, via a nickel slot, part of the mechanics of the viewing system.

PAY PHONES You can make a local 10 cent call for 2 cents by spitting on the pennies and dropping them in the nickel slot.

Another way is to spin the pennies counter-clockwise into the nickel slot.

Drop a penny in the nickel slot until it catches in the mechanism (spinning will help).