NICK

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. a small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch
    a user's reserved nick on an IRC network
  4. Condition
    The car I bought was cheap and in good nick.
  5. 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)
  6. The point where the wall of the court meets the floor.
  7. A nixie, or water-sprite.
  8. A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution.

Verb

  1. To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in.
    I nicked myself while I was shaving.
  2. To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.
  3. To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.
  4. To steal.
    Someone's nicked my bike!
  5. To arrest.
    The police nicked him climbing over the fence of the house he'd broken into.
  6. to hit the ball with the edge of the bat and produce a fine deflection
  7. To nickname; to style.
    For Warbeck, as you nick him, came to me. — Ford.
  8. To throw or turn up (a number when playing dice); to hit upon.
  9. To make a cross cut or cuts on the underside of (the tail of a horse, in order to make him carry it higher).


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