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