nick¹ /nik/

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)

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

1. (of breeding animals) to mate well
2. (usu with off or out) to leave

Able to be stolen

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

• prepenses
• prepensing
• prepensive
• prepollence
• prepollences
• prepollencies
• prepollency
• prepollent
• prepollex
• prepollices
• preponderance
• preponderances
• preponderancies
• preponderancy
• preponderant
• preponderantly
• preponderate
• preponderated
• preponderates
• preponderating
• preponderatingly
• prepone
• preponed
• prepones
• preponing