TO NICK

Definition: NICK

NICK

Noun

1. An impression in a surface (as made by a blow).

2. A small cut.

Verb

1. Cut slightly, with a razor; "The barber's knife nicked his cheek".

2. Cut a nick into.

3. Divide or reset the tail muscles, as of horses.

4. Mate successfully; of livestock.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: TO NICK

How do you know you're not just as filthy and sent by him to nick the ring by being filthy when you have lulled us with your filthy eastern ways? (Help!; writing credit: Marc Behm; Charles Wood)

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Hungarian

lerövidít (cut down, cut short, detruncate, short cut, to abridge, to curtail, to cut down), bemetsz (incise, Nick, pinpoint, score, snick, to engrave, to excise, to incise, to notch, to scarify, to slit, to tap), elcsíp (got, nab, snaffle, to corral, to get, to grab at, to grab for, to grab hold of, to nab, to nip, to snap), ellop (mooch, pilfer, prig, purloin, scrounge, snoop, to collar, to filch, to glom, to knock off, to nab, to purloin, to rob, to sneak, to snoop, to spirit away, to spirit off, to swipe), elvesz (detract, take away, to bate, to expropriate, to take from), felmar, begyűjt (to gather), lefülel (to collar), vesz (bought, buy, get, lay hold of, oppress, pick up, press, purchase, squeeze, take, take over, taken, to buy, to commune, to fence, to gibe, to list, to put in an appearance, to re-enter, to scorn, to take, to wed, took), lop (abstract, filch, lift, steal, thieve, to filch, to fork, to heist, to pole, to pull, to rob), megfúj (to clout, to glom, to heist, to snag, to wind, wound), megkarcol (chafe, to graze, to scarify, to scrape), nyakon csíp (to collar, to cop, to pull), rovátkol (jag, to channel, to gimp, to indent, to indenture, to jag, to mortice, to notch, to rifle, to slot), találatot ér el (to score a hit), helyesen megfejt. (various references)

Manx

dy yiarrey stiagh (to nick in). (various references)

Pig Latin

otay icknay

Misspellings

"TO NICK" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tonick. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ontic, tonic.

-2 letters: cion, coin, coni, conk, icon, ikon, into, kino, knit, knot, nick, nock, oink, otic, tick.

-3 letters: con, cot, ick, ink, ion, kin, kit, koi, nit, not, tic, tin, ton.

-4 letters: in, it, no, on, ti, to.

+1 letter: kenotic, ketonic.

+2 letters: antilock, antirock, cytokine, downtick, linstock, nektonic, nonstick, pyknotic, stocking, trocking.

+3 letters: ankylotic, antiknock, antishock, cytokines, cytokinin, docketing, downticks, flintlock, interlock, ketogenic, linstocks, pocketing, rocketing, socketing, stockinet, stockings.

+4 letters: antiknocks, checkpoint, cuckoopint, cytokinins, flintlocks, interlocks, kaolinitic, mackintosh, outcooking, outkicking, outrocking, planktonic, restocking, skeletonic, stockading, stockiness, stockinets, stockinged, tictocking.

+5 letters: bootlicking, cabinetwork, cartoonlike, checkpoints, cocktailing, computernik, countersink, cuckoopints, cytokineses, cytokinesis, cytokinetic, greenockite, interlocked, kinetochore, kinetoscope, optokinetic, outslicking, outtricking, pocketknife, politicking, stockinette, stockpiling, stocktaking, ticktocking, trickledown.