Meaning of nick in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

noun

• A small cut in a surface.

• Senses connoting something small.

• Often in the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition, state.

  Example: The car I bought was cheap and in good nick.

• (law enforcement) A police station or prison.

  Example: He was arrested and taken down to Sun Hill nick [police station] to be charged.

verb

• To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.

  Example: I nicked myself while I was shaving.

• To fit into or suit, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.

• To make a cut at the side of the face.

• To steal.

  Example: Someone’s nicked my bike!

• (law enforcement) To arrest.

  Example: The police nicked him climbing over the fence of the house he’d broken into.

verb

• To give or call (someone) by a nickname; to style.

noun

• A familiar, invented given name for a person or thing used instead of the actual name of the person or thing.

• A kind of byname that describes a person by a characteristic of that person.

noun

• A nix or nixie.