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单词 in good nick
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nick1 /nik/

noun
  1. A notch
  2. A small cut
  3. (usu preceded by the) a prison or police station (informal)
  4. The line formed where floor and wall meet in a squash, etc court
  5. A score for keeping an account (archaic)
  6. The precise moment of time
  7. The precise point aimed at
  8. (at the old dice game of hazard) a throw answering to a main
  9. A hidden bottom in a beer tankard, the outer base being hollow (obsolete)
transitive verb
  1. To notch
  2. To cut (usu slightly)
  3. To snip
  4. To cut off
  5. To cut in notches (eg the hair of a fool; Shakespeare)
  6. To catch (slang)
  7. To arrest (slang)
  8. To steal (slang)
  9. To rob
  10. To make a cut in (a horse's tail muscle), so that the tail is carried higher
  11. To defraud
  12. To mark by cutting, carve out
  13. To score, eg on a tally
  14. To tally with (obsolete)
  15. To hit with precision
  16. To hit off (obsolete)
  17. To catch in the nick of time
  18. To cheat at hazard, defeat by throwing a nick
  19. At hazard, to throw the nick of
intransitive verb
  1. (of breeding animals) to mate well
  2. (usu with off or out) to leave
adjective (informal)

Able to be stolen

ORIGIN: Poss connected with nock or notch

nickˈer noun

  1. Someone who or something which nicks
  2. Any of a band of early 18c London rioters who made a practice of smashing windows by throwing copper coins at them

nickˈstick noun (archaic)

A tally

nick translation noun

A method of radioactively labelling a DNA molecule

in good nick (informal)

In good health or condition

in the nick of time

  1. Just in time
  2. At the critical moment

out of all nick (Shakespeare)

Out of all reckoning, exceedingly

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