EGAVE

nick

About 6.26 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A small cut in a surface. A particular place or point considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.
    in the nick of time
  2. noun A particular place or point considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.
    in the nick of time
  3. noun A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution.
  4. noun Senses connoting something small. A small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch. One of the single-stranded DNA segments produced during nick translation. The point where the wall of the court meets the floor.
  5. noun A small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch.
  6. noun One of the single-stranded DNA segments produced during nick translation.
  7. noun The point where the wall of the court meets the floor.
  8. noun Often in the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition, state.
    The car I bought was cheap and in good nick.

Similar words

chip notch snick gouge dent max get nickname happening cut-off

Often followed by

of and was said had is in to asked

Word family

nicked nicking nicks

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