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Meaning of nicks
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 nix or nixie.
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.
Source: Free Dictionary API.
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