nickel tour

English

Noun

nickel tour (plural nickel tours)

1. (US, idiomatic, derogatory, dated) Synonym of fifty-cent tour.
   • 2004, Ian Parmee, Adaptive Computing in Design and Manufacture VI, →ISBN, page 4:

     Our nickel tour doesn't do justice to GA mechanics, but even a longer explanation would leave us scratching our heads and asking how such simple operators might do anything useful, let alone promote an effective, robust search for good stuff.

   • 2012, Thaddeus Deluca, At Bully Hills, →ISBN:

     Just what I needed, another nickel tour by another roommate; “What was it with roommates and nickel tours?” I wondered.

   • 2016, Maggie Wells, Flip This Love, →ISBN:

     "Come on. Fix me a cup of sissy coffee and I'll take you on the nickel tour.” The nickel tour included such highlights as the spot where the uncomfortable floral couch held court in the parlor and a little borderline sexual stroking of the aforementioned chair rails in the dining room.

   • 2017 November, N. K. Jemisin, Mac Walters, chapter 14, in Mass Effect Andromeda: Initiation‎^[1], 1st edition (Science Fiction), Titan Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 267:

     “Come on, let’s give you the nickel tour,” he suggested. “Welcome aboard, Lieutenant Harper.”