Definitions for Nick

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Spelling: [nik]

IPA: /nɪk/

Nick is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in Nick (cikn).

Definitions for Nick

noun

1. a small notch, groove, chip, or the like, cut into or existing in something.
2. a hollow place produced in an edge or surface, as of a dish, by breaking, chipping, or the like:
3. a small dent or wound.
4. a small groove on one side of the shank of a printing type, serving as a guide in setting or to distinguish different types.
5. Biochemistry. a break in one strand of a double-stranded DNA or RNA molecule.
6. British Slang. prison.
7. Old Nick.
8. a male given name, form of Nicholas.

Idioms

1. in the nick of time, at the right or vital moment, usually at the last possible moment:

verb (used with object)

1. to cut into or through:
2. to hit or injure slightly.
3. to make a nick or nicks in (something); notch, groove, or chip.
4. to record by means of a notch or notches.
5. to incise certain tendons at the root of (a horse's tail) to give it a higher carrying position; make an incision under the tail of (a horse).
6. to hit, guess, catch, etc., exactly.
7. Slang. to trick, cheat, or defraud:
8. British Slang. to arrest (a criminal or suspect). to capture; nab. to steal:

Origin of Nick

1475-85; obscurely akin to Old English gehnycned wrinkled, Old Norse hnykla to wrinkle

Examples for Nick

The case of nick, although sore enough in its way, was not so heartrending as that of Kate.

Mr. Cruncher, with some diffidence, explained himself as meaning "Old nick's."

Pointing out that nick Denton writes and speaks like a literate adult and not like a 14-year-old in remedial English.

The incident sparked his belief in Santa, but he would have to wait nearly two decades before dressing up as Jolly St. nick.

“The majority of it goes to nick and Owen, to the company,” former RSD instructor Kole told me.

There was a time when Twigger would have replied, ‘Well, nick!’

Young nick's Hattie was forty-five, but she looked much younger.

Well done nick, and the divil a betther could it be said if I said it myself.

For nick Offerman, of Parks and Recreation, the one is a thing: whiskey.

Internet media entrepreneur nick Denton is a person to whom harsh judgments adhere like barnacles.