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[Noun] | "nick" | \ ˈnik \

1: a small notch, groove, or chip

2: a small cut or wound

3: a break in one strand of two-stranded DNA caused by a missing phosphodiester bond

Origin: 15th century ;

Middle English nyke, probably alteration of nocke nock;

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[Noun] | "Old Nick" | \ ˈōl(d)-ˈnik \

1: —used as a name of the devil

Origin: circa 1643 ;

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[Noun] | "the nick"

1: a prison or police station

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[Verb] | "nick"

1: to jot down : record

2: to make a nick in : notch, chip

3: to cut into or wound slightly

Origin: 15th century ;

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[Idiom] | "in bad nick"

1: in bad condition

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[Idiom] | "in good nick"

1: in good condition

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[Idiom] | "in the nick of time"

1: just before the last moment when something can be changed or something bad will happen

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[Noun] | "nick"

1: a V-shaped cut usually on an edge or a surface;

* e.g., " ... I made a nick in the frame when I accidentally dropped it "

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2: a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody;

* e.g., " ... the blokes at the pub traded stories of nights spent in the nick after having lifted too many pints "

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3: a state of being or fitness;

* e.g., " ... the princess is in excellent nick these days "

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[Noun] | "Old Nick"

1: the supreme personification of evil often represented as the ruler of hell;

* e.g., " ... he gave me a look that would scare Old Nick "

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[Verb] | "nick"

1: to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep;

* e.g., " ... that lorry was a piece of rubbish, I don't know why anyone would want to nick it "

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2: to take or keep under one's control by authority of law;

* e.g., " ... a petty thief who was always getting nicked for picking the pockets of tourists outside Buckingham Palace "

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[Verb] | "nick (at)"

1: as in snipe (at);

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