Usually means: Small cut or notch made.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. nick: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. nick, the nick: Merriam-Webster
  3. nick, nick, the nick: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. nick: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. nick: Collins English Dictionary
  6. nick: Vocabulary.com
  7. NIck, Nick, nick: Wordnik
  8. nick, the nick: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Nick, nick: Wiktionary
  10. nick: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. nick: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. nick: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. NICK: Dictionary.com
  14. nick (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. nick: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Nick (DNA), Nick (Skins series 5), Nick (Skins series 6), Nick: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Nick: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. nick: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. nick: Rhymezone
  20. nick: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. nick: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Nick, nick: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. nick: FreeDictionary.org
  24. nick: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Nick: The Word Detective
  26. nick: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. nick: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. nick: CCI Computer
  3. nick: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. nick: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  4. nick: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. NICK: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. nick: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. nick, nick, nick, nick, nick, nick, nick, nick, nick, nick, nick, nick, Nick: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. nick: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Nick: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  4. Nick, the nick: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Squash Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Nick: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Diamonds (No longer online)

(Note: See nicked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A small cut in a surface.
noun:  (now rare) A particular place or point considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.
noun:  (printing, dated) 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:  Senses connoting something small.
noun:  (cricket) A small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch.
noun:  (genetics) One of the single-stranded DNA segments produced during nick translation.
noun:  (real tennis, squash, racquetball) The point where the wall of the court meets the floor.
noun:  (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, colloquial) Often in the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition, state.
noun:  (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, law enforcement, slang) A police station or prison.
verb:  (transitive) To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.
verb:  (transitive) To make ragged or uneven, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to deface, to mar.
verb:  (transitive, rare) To make a crosscut or cuts on the underside of (the tail of a horse, in order to make the animal carry it higher).
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To fit into or suit, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.
verb:  (transitive, sometimes figurative) To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.
verb:  (transitive, cricket) To hit the ball with the edge of the bat and produce a fine deflection.
verb:  (transitive, gaming) To throw or turn up (a number when playing dice); to hit upon.
verb:  (transitive, mining) To make a cut at the side of the face.
verb:  (transitive, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, colloquial) To steal.
verb:  (transitive, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, law enforcement, slang) To arrest.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To give or call (someone) by a nickname; to style.
noun:  (archaic) A nix or nixie (“water spirit”).
noun:  A diminutive of the male given name Nicholas.
noun:  (Internet) Clipping of nickname. [A familiar, invented name for a person or thing used instead of the actual name of the person or thing, often based on some noteworthy characteristic.]

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