nick
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
A small cut in a surface.
- 2.
Senses connoting something small.
- 3.
(Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial)Often in the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition, state.
The car I bought was cheap and in good nick.
- 4.
(Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang)(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, law enforcement, slang) A police station or prison.
He was arrested and taken down to Sun Hill nick [police station] to be charged.
He’s just been released from Shadwell nick [prison] after doing ten years for attempted murder.
- 5.
(Internet, abbreviation, alt of, clipping)Clipping of nickname.
a user’s reserved nick on an IRC network
- 6.
(archaic)A nix or nixie (“water spirit”).
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.
I nicked myself while I was shaving.
- 2.
(obsolete, transitive)To fit into or suit, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.
- 3.
(transitive)(transitive, mining) To make a cut at the side of the face.
- 4.
(Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial, transitive)To steal.
Someone’s nicked my bike!
- 5.
(Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang, transitive)(transitive, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, law enforcement, slang) To arrest.
The police nicked him climbing over the fence of the house he’d broken into.
- 6.
(obsolete, transitive)To give or call (someone) by a nickname; to style.
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The noun is derived from Late Middle English nik (notch, tally; nock of an arrow). Its; a connection with nock has not been clearly established.