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Definition of Nick
Nick
An evil spirit of the waters.

A notch cut into something

A score for keeping an account; a reckoning.

A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution.

A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; nicks in china.

A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.

To make a nick or nicks in; to notch; to keep count of or upon by nicks; as, to nick a stick, tally, etc.

To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in.

To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.

To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.

To make a cross cut or cuts on the under side of (the tail of a horse, in order to make him carry ir higher).

To nickname; to style.


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Nick Quotations
I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.
Dawn French

Every person should have their escape route planned. I think everyone has an apocalypse fantasy, what would I do in the event of the end of the world, and we just basically - me and Nick - said what would we do, where would we head?
Simon Pegg

The publisher has told - you know, if these editors, Andres Martinez and Nick Goldberg, were the least bit honest about this, they would tell you the publisher has told them he wants the editorial page to be conservative.
Robert Scheer

Nick and Simon had come to a natural end of their working relationship with Warren, which obviously opened the door for a reunion of the original five.
Roger Andrew Taylor

The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.
Stephen Malkmus

I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.
Anthony Doerr

I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way.
Dave Edmunds


And then it got even worse, I mean, a few people fell by the wayside within hours. Nick Lowe was in it for about 5 hours I think, he was expelled for going to bed.
Dave Edmunds

Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.
Alan Rudolph

More Nick Quotations

Nick Translations
nick in French is coche
nick in German is Kerbe, einschneiden
nick in Italian is intaccatura
nick in Spanish is mella, ranura






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