nick

noun

1. A small notch, groove, or chip

   "For one thing, formal chairs, beds and tables require greater vigilance on the part of the owners to protect against nicks and spills."

2. A small cut or wound

   "got a few nicks from shaving"

3. A break in one strand of two-stranded DNA caused by a missing phosphodiester bond
4. A final critical moment

   "in the nick of time"

5. Prison
6. Condition

   "in good nick"

verb

1. To jot down record
2. To make a nick in notch, chip

   "… her favorite haunts are … department stores where she scores deep discounts on nicked furniture sold off the floor."

3. To cut into or wound slightly

   "nicked himself shaving"

4. To cut short

   "cold weather, which nicked steel and automobile output"

5. To catch at the right point or time
6. Cheat, overcharge

   "“A cry of anguish ascended to high heavens,” reported Business Week in 1933, “when millions of white-collar workers discovered that they had been nicked for a considerable percentage of their earnings when J. P. Morgan and partners had paid no income tax at all.”"

7. Arrest

   "The new owner, my brother, had installed all the window grilles and had them wired on a direct alarm to the police station so that if anyone tried to enter that way they would be nicked."

8. Steal

   "To discover at the last moment that 24 cases of Schweppes had been nicked from the cellar was a horrible shock."

9. To make petty attacks snipe
10. To complement one another genetically and produce superior offspring

noun

1. Used as a name of the devil

idiom

1. In bad condition

   "an economy in bad nick"

idiom

1. In good condition

   "I watched the team practice, and all the players looked in good nick."

idiom

1. Just before the last moment when something can be changed or something bad will happen

   "He decided to go just in the nick of time."

noun

1. A prison or police station

   "She spent a night in the nick."