(US, _, slang) The national speed limit of 55 miles per hour introduced in the USA in 1974.
But in 1982 they found a loophole: Keep the double-nickel speed limit, but effectively allow motorists to drive up to 65 by designating that speed a “waste of a finite resource” and setting the fine at $15.
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(US, _, slang) The number 55 (by extension).
Peckinpah is just as interested in the old golf-cart codger who says “Damn the double-nickel!” (in reference to the 55mph speed limit) as he is in Duck or Lyle, and much more so than in Ali MacGraw’s character, along for the ride and mar…
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(with dummy it) To travel at 55 miles per hour.
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