📚 Nickelodeon, noun. 🔉 /ˌnɪkəˈləʊdɪən/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (North American • informal, dated): A jukebox, originally one operated by the insertion of a nickel coin. ❗️ Examples: 1. She devotes loving attention to her orchestra, and especially to the coin-operated nickelodeon, the earliest version of a juke box. 2. 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. 3. This sounds like I'm describing the days of crystal-set radios and hand-cranked nickelodeons, I know. 4. Songs well up from the subliminal nickelodeon in my head. 5. Well, it's based on this Tijuana nickelodeon machine. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic