Sekirov Dictionary

nick

/nɪk/

verb11

  1. to cut someone or something just a little, so that only a small mark is left
  2. (UK, informal) To steal.
  3. To make ragged or uneven, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to deface, to mar.
  4. To make a cut at the side of the face.
  5. (rare) To make a crosscut or cuts on the underside of (the tail of a horse, in order to make the animal carry it higher).
  6. (UK, slang) To arrest.
  7. To hit the ball with the edge of the bat and produce a fine deflection.
  8. (figurative, no longer used) To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.
  9. (no longer used) To throw or turn up (a number when playing dice); to hit upon.
  10. (no longer used) To fit into or suit, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.
  11. (no longer used) To give or call (someone) by a nickname; to style.

noun10

  1. A small cut in a surface.
  2. (old-fashioned) A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution.
  3. (UK, slang) A police station or prison.
  4. (UK, informal) Often in the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition, state.
  5. (Internet) Clipping of nickname.
  6. A small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch.
  7. The point where the wall of the court meets the floor.
  8. One of the single-stranded DNA segments produced during nick translation.
  9. (no longer used) A particular place or point considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.
  10. (no longer used) A nix or nixie (“water spirit”).
forms

nicked · nicking · nicks

Phrases with nick

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