What (who) is nick - definition
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NICK; Nick (disambiguation)
nick
[IRC ] nickname. On IRC, every user must pick a nick, which
is sometimes the user's real name or login name, but is often
more fanciful. Compare handle.
[Jargon File ]
nick
n. (misc.) in the nick of time ('precisely when needed')
nick
(nicks, nicking, nicked)
1.
If someone nicks something, they steal it. (BRIT INFORMAL)
He smashed a window to get in and nicked a load of silver cups...
= pinch
VERB: V n
2.
If the police nick someone, they arrest them. (BRIT INFORMAL)
The police nicked me for carrying an offensive weapon...
Keep quiet or we'll all get nicked.
VERB: V n, get/be V-ed
3.
If you nick something or nick yourself, you accidentally make a small cut in the surface of the object or your skin.
When I pulled out of the space, I nicked the rear bumper of the car in front of me...
He dropped a bottle in the kitchen and nicked himself on broken glass.
VERB: V n, V pron-refl
4.
A nick is a small cut made in the surface of something, usually in someone's skin.
The barbed wire had left only the tiniest nick just below my right eye.
N-COUNT
5.
If you are nicked by someone, they cheat you, for example by charging you too much money. (AM INFORMAL)
College students already are being nicked, but probably don't realize it.
= rip off
VERB: be V-ed
6.
Nick is used in expressions such as 'in good nick' or 'in bad nick' to describe the physical condition of someone or something. (BRIT INFORMAL)
His ribs were damaged, but other than that he's in good nick...
Tom's house is actually in better nick than mine.
PHRASE: v-link PHR
7.
If you say that something happens in the nick of time, you are emphasizing that it happens at the last possible moment.
Seems we got here just in the nick of time...
= just in time
PHRASE: usu PHR after v [emphasis]
Wikipedia
Nick
Nick may refer to:
- Nick (given name)
- A cricket term for a slight deviation of the ball off the edge of the bat
- British slang for being arrested
- British slang for a police station
- British slang for stealing
- Short for nickname
Pronunciation examples for nick
1. Nick. Nick.
Final Destination (2009)
2. Nick! Nick!
Final Destination (2009)
3. NICK: Nick.
Off Broadway's Drunk Shakespeare _ Talks at Google
4. Nick.
Final Destination (2009)
5. Nick.
Memory Expert _ Chester Santos _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of nick
1. Political Notebook by Nick Robinson WELCOME home Nick.
2. Nick Bateman, dubbed "Nasty Nick" because of his trickery in the original series, is third.
3. Expats over 30 years old wishing to join the league can e–mail Nick Rees at nick@expat–league.com.
4. Nick Paton Walsh reports Nick Paton Walsh, Grozny Tuesday June 13, 2006 Akmad Kadyrov, the Chechen president assassinated in 2004.
5. Nick Robinson named new BBC political editor Nick Robinson has been named as the BBC‘s new political editor.