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1. An impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
   - dent, ding, gouge
    
2. (slang) a prison
   "he's in the nick"
   - quod [Brit]
    
3. A small cut
   - notch, snick
    
4. (informal) condition
   "the house is in very bad nick"

1. Cut slightly, with a razor
   "The barber's knife nicked his cheek"
   - snick
    
2. Cut a nick into
   - chip
    
3. Divide or reset the tail muscles of
   "nick horses"
    
4. Mate successfully; of livestock
    
5. [Brit] Take into custody
   - collar, nail, apprehend, arrest, pick up, nab, cop
    
6. [Brit] Make off with belongings of others
   - pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch [Brit], abstract, snarf [N. Amer], swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble [Brit], lift

Derived forms: nicked, nicking, nicks

Type of: alter, blemish, change, clutch, copulate, couple, cut, cutting, defect, mar, mate, modify, pair, prehend [archaic], prison, prison house, seize, steal

Encyclopedia: Nick Nick, Hungary Nick, Ruell, and Ned the Band