Definitions for NIM

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NIM nim

Spelling: [nim]

IPA: /nɪm/

Nim is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 17 anagrams from letters in NIM (imn).

Definitions for NIM

noun

1. a game in which two players alternate in drawing counters, pennies, or the like, from a set of 12 arranged in three rows of 3, 4, and 5 counters, respectively, the object being to draw the last counter, or, sometimes, to avoid drawing it.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to steal or pilfer.

Origin of NIM

before 900; Middle English nimen, Old English niman, cognate with German nehmen, Old Norse nema, Gothic niman to take; cf. numb

Examples for NIM

Now, you hemp-strings, had you no time to nim us, but when we were upon our visits?

I ken he has his eye on Daisy Burn for nim, ever sin' he saw the captain.

We call him nim and sometimes 'Mr. nimble' because he is so lively.

But nim had made off among the trees, grinning in every long tooth.

I venture to add, with all possible energy of asseveration, that I did that thing, nim.

A documentary film based on her recent book, nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human , will be released next year.

When she got him, she just decided she was going to have fun with nim.

There, nim lived out the rest of his days, dying in 2000 at age 26 from a heart attack.

They're all out lookin' for you—nim, an' the whole "Corner" bodily.

There, nim met Bob Ingersoll, a high-spirited University of Oklahoma student who worked at the facility.