Definition of "nickelodeon" []

• An early movie theater charging an admission price of five cents. (noun)
• A player piano. (noun)
• A jukebox. (noun)

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• "Inc. Attention will be focused on 50 major neighborhood and downtown theaters, culled from a list of nearly 250 that have dotted the city's landscape since the first "nickelodeon" opened in 1896 at 626 Canal Street."
• "They seized film, beat up directors and actors, forced audiences out of theaters, smashed the nickelodeon arcades, and set fire to entire city blocks where they were concentrated."
• "Not until the producers of nickelodeon movies agreed to censor their own material did the mayor rescind his order."