nick
nick is a 4-letter English word with 19 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An evil spirit of the waters. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. An evil spirit of the waters.
- noun. A notch cut into something
- noun. A score for keeping an account; a reckoning.
- 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.
- noun. A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; nicks in china.
- noun. A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.
- transitive verb. To make a nick or nicks in; to notch; to keep count of or upon by nicks; as, to nick a stick, tally, etc.
- transitive verb. To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in.
- transitive verb. To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.
- transitive verb. To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.
- transitive verb. 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).
- transitive verb. To nickname; to style.
- noun. a small cut
- noun. (British slang) a prison
"he's in the nick"
- noun. an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
- verb. mate successfully; of livestock
- verb. divide or reset the tail muscles of
"nick horses"
- verb. cut a nick into
- verb. cut slightly, with a razor
"The barber's knife nicked his cheek"
Synonyms
notch, snick, dent, ding, gouge, chip
Common word forms
nicks, nicked, nicker, nicking
Words from these letters
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