on nickle night

[ostap77]

This an extract from a dialog.

''This is a water balloon launcher."

"Does it work?"

"Like a whore on nickle night."

"Pardon?"

"It gets the job done."

I might have misheard but I guess it was this way. What does "a whore on nickel night" mean?

 

[Verona_82]

on nickel night maybe? then it makes sense.

 

[ostap77]

on nickel night maybe? then it makes sense.

Sorry! What would it mean than?

 

[Verona_82]

Well, ostap, I only know what 'nickel night' means when used alone. When a bar or a night club makes, for example, Friday a nickel night, that means that on Fri night all drinks cost 5 cents.
I'd assume that on nickel nights there're lots of drunk men. Hence, there's a lot of work for prostitues. That's just my assumption, of course.

 

[Ouisch]

"Nickel night" refers to any event where the product or service costs only five cents (a five cent coin in the US is called a "nickel"). Many bars have "nickel beer night" for example. There is also an old (rather rude) idiom about "sweating like a two dollar whore on nickel night," meaning a prostitute who usually charges $2 per "date" has to sell her services for five cents a session on this particular night. With such a discount in place of course business will be brisk and she will be kept very busy working non-stop.