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Singular
nick

Plural
nicks

nick (plural nicks)

  1. A small cut in a surface
  2. 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)
  3. (British, 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)
  4. (cricket) a small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch
  5. a shortened form of "nickname"
  6. (British, slang) Condition
    The car I bought was cheap and in good nick

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Infinitive
to nick

Third person singular
nicks

Simple past
nicked

Past participle
nicked

Present participle
nicking

to nick (third-person singular simple present nicks, present participle nicking, simple past and past participle nicked)

  1. (transitive) To make a nick in, especially unintentionally.
    I nicked myself while I was shaving.
  2. (transitive, slang) To steal.
    Someone's nicked my bike!
  3. (transitive, British, slang) To arrest.
    The police nicked him climbing over the fence of the house he'd broken into.
  4. (transitive, cricket) to hit the ball with the edge of the bat and produce a fine deflection

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nick

  1. nothing

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Inflection for nick Singular Plural
common Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Base form nick nicken nickar nickarna
Possessive form nicks nickens nickars nickarnas

nick c.

  1. header (in football)
  2. nod (movement of the head to indicate agreement)
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From the English nickname

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nick n.

Inflection for nick Singular Plural
neuter Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Base form nick nicket nick nicken
Possessive form nicks nickets nicks nickens
  1. (slang) nick, nickname