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nickelodeon /ˌnɪkəˈləʊdɪən /noun North American1 informal, dated A jukebox, originally one operated by the insertion of a nickel coin.She devotes loving attention to her orchestra, and especially to the coin-operated nickelodeon, the earliest version of a juke box....- 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.
- This sounds like I'm describing the days of crystal-set radios and hand-cranked nickelodeons, I know.
2 historical A cinema with an admission fee of one nickel.Another sound in the nickelodeons was the murmur of immigrant voices translating aloud the titles into the languages of Europe....- Before long, thousands of nickelodeons popped up in cities across the country, ushering in a new era of the motion picture as profit-making industry, entertainment for the masses and pop culture juggernaut.
- 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.
OriginEarly 20th century: from nickel + a shortened form of melodeon. RhymesCambodian, collodion, custodian, melodeon, Odeon |