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nick1

Syllabification: (nick)
Pronunciation: /nik/
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Definition of nick

noun

  • 1a small cut or notch.
  • 2 (the nick) British informal prison.
  • a police station.
  • 3the junction between the floor and sidewalls in a court for playing tennis or squash.

verb

[with object]
  • 1make a nick or nicks in:he had nicked himself while shaving
  • 2 (nick someone for) North American informal cheat someone of (something, typically a sum of money):he nicked me for fifteen hundred dollars
  • 3British informal steal:he’d had his car nicked by joyriders
  • arrest or apprehend (someone):I got nicked for burglary

Phrases

in the nick of time

only just in time.

Origin:

late Middle English: of unknown origin

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