nick
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- Rhymes: -ɪk
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nick (plural nicks)
- A small cut in a surface
- A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.
- By a kind of godsend, Fifty shillings did, in the very nick of time, fall due, or seem to fall due, from one of his Farmers (1843 Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 4, Abbot Hugo)
- (cricket) a small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch
- Short for nickname.
- (UK, slang) Condition
- The car I bought was cheap and in good nick.
- (UK, slang) A police station or prison
- He was arrested and taken down to Sun Hill nick to be charged. (police station)
- He's just been released from Shadwell nick after doing ten years for attempted murder. (prison)
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nick (third-person singular simple present nicks, present participle nicking, simple past and past participle nicked)
- (transitive) To make a nick in, especially unintentionally.
- I nicked myself while I was shaving.
- (transitive, slang) To steal.
- Someone's nicked my bike!
- (transitive, UK, slang) To arrest.
- The police nicked him climbing over the fence of the house he'd broken into.
- (transitive, cricket) to hit the ball with the edge of the bat and produce a fine deflection
- (obsolete) To nickname; to style.
- For Warbeck, as you nick him, came to me. — Ford.
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To steal
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From the English nickname
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