Nick
Nick is a masculine given name. It is also often encountered as a short form (hypocorism) of the given names Nicholas, Nicola, Nicolas or Nikola. It may refer to:
Knick (verb)
alternative spelling of nick
Nick (noun)
A cut in a surface.
Nick (noun)
A particular place or point considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.
“in the nick of time”
Nick (noun)
Senses connoting something small.
Nick (noun)
A notch cut shank of a type, to assist a placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution.
Nick (noun)
A small ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the catch.
Nick (noun)
One of the segments produced during nick translation.
Nick (noun)
In the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition, state.
“The car I bought was cheap and in good nick.”
Nick (noun)
A station or prison.
“He was arrested and taken down to Sun Hill nick [police station] to be charged.”
“He’s just been released from Shadwell nick [prison] after doing ten years for attempted murder.”
Nick (noun)
clipping of nickname
“a user’s reserved nick on an IRC network”
Nick (noun)
A nix or water]] spirit.
Nick (verb)
To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.
“I nicked myself while I was shaving.”
Nick (verb)
To make ragged or mar.
Nick (verb)
To suit, as by a tally with.
Nick (verb)
To make a cuts on the tail of a horse, in order to make the carry it higher).
Nick (verb)
To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch strike at the time.
Nick (verb)
To hit the ball with the edge of the bat and produce a fine deflection.
Nick (verb)
To steal.
“Someone’s nicked my bike!”
Nick (verb)
To arrest.
“The police nicked him climbing over the fence of the house he’d broken into.”
Nick (verb)
To give or call (someone) by a nickname; to style.
Nick (noun)
a small cut or notch
“a small nick on his wrist”
Nick (noun)
prison
“he’ll end up in the nick for the rest of his life”
Nick (noun)
a police station
“he was being fingerprinted in the nick”
Nick (noun)
the junction between the floor and side walls in a squash court or real tennis court.
Nick (verb)
make a nick or nicks in
“he had nicked himself while shaving”
Nick (verb)
steal
“she nicked fivers from the till”
Nick (verb)
cheat someone of (a sum of money)
“banks will be nicked for an extra $40 million”
Nick (verb)
arrest (someone)
“Stuart and Dan got nicked for burglary”
Nick (verb)
go quickly or surreptitiously
“they nicked across the road”
Nick (verb)
depart; go away
“I got up and got dressed and nicked off”