NICK
/nษชk/
10
Scrabble
12
WWF
N(1) I(1) C(3) K(5)
NWL/TWL ✓ Collins ✓ WWF ✓
Definition
/nษชk/
noun
- A small cut in a surface.
- Senses connoting something small.
- Often in the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition, state.“The car I bought was cheap and in good nick.”
- (law enforcement) A police station or prison.“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.“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.“Someoneโs nicked my bike!”
- (law enforcement) To arrest.“The police nicked him climbing over the fence of the house heโd broken into.”
Source: Wiktionary
