Nick

Noun

 * 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.
 * 3) * 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)
 * 4)  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)
 * 1)  a small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch
 * 2) a shortened form of "nickname"
 * 3)  Condition
 * The car I bought was cheap and in good nick.

Verb

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

Derived terms

 * in the nick of time

Thesaurus
Vandyke, appropriate, arrest, ascender, back, bastard type, beard, beat it, belly, bevel, birthmark, black letter, blaze, blaze a trail, blemish, blotch, body, brand, cabbage, cap, capital, case, cast, caste mark, chalk, chalk up, check, check off, checkmark, chip, chop, cicatrix, cicatrize, cleft, clout, collar, counter, crap, craps, crena, crenellate, crenulate, crimp, cut, dapple, dash, defect, define, delimit, demarcate, dent, depart, depression, descender, discolor, discoloration, dot, earmark, em, en, engrave, engraving, face, fat-faced type, feet, flaw, fleck, flick, font, freckle, gash, gouge, graving, groove, hack, hatch, hook, impress, imprint, incise, incision, indent, indentation, indenture, italic, jag, jog, joggle, jot, kerf, knurl, lentigo, letter, ligature, line, logotype, lower case, machicolate, macula, majuscule, make a mark, make off with, make tracks, mark, mark off, mark out, marking, mill, minuscule, mole, mottle, nab, nail, natural, nevus, nip, nock, notch, patch, pencil, pepper, pi, pica, picot, pinch, pink, point, police station, polka dot, prick, print, punch, punctuate, puncture, purloin, riddle, roll, roman, sans serif, scallop, scar, scarification, scarify, score, scotch, scratch, scratching, script, seal, seam, serrate, shank, shot, shoulder, slash, small cap, small capital, speck, speckle, splash, splotch, spot, stain, stamp, steal, stem, stigma, stigmatize, strawberry mark, streak, striate, stripe, take, take in, take off, tattoo, tattoo mark, throw, tick, tick off, tittle, tooth, trace, type, type body, type class, type lice, typecase, typeface, typefounders, typefoundry, underline, underscore, upper case, watermark

Pronunciation




Noun

 * Czech: ,


 * Finnish:

Verb

 * Finnish: pölliä, , vohkia
 * French:


 * German: klauen
 * Swedish: norpa, knycka, sno

Pronoun

 * 1) nothing

Noun

 * 1) nod (movement of the head to indicate agreement)
 * 2) header (in football)

Synonyms

 * (header): nickning c
 * (nod): nickning c

Derived terms

 * nickedocka
 * nicka
 * nicka till

Noun

 * 1)  nick, nickname

Etymology 2
From the English nickname