transcription, транскрипция: [ nɪk ]
( nicks, nicking, nicked)
1.
If someone nicks something, they steal it. ( BRIT INFORMAL )
He smashed a window to get in and nicked a load of silver cups...
= pinch
VERB : V n
2.
If the police nick someone, they arrest them. ( BRIT INFORMAL )
The police nicked me for carrying an offensive weapon...
Keep quiet or we’ll all get nicked.
VERB : V n , get/be V-ed
3.
If you nick something or nick yourself, you accidentally make a small cut in the surface of the object or your skin.
When I pulled out of the space, I nicked the rear bumper of the car in front of me...
He dropped a bottle in the kitchen and nicked himself on broken glass.
VERB : V n , V pron-refl
4.
A nick is a small cut made in the surface of something, usually in someone’s skin.
The barbed wire had left only the tiniest nick just below my right eye.
N-COUNT
5.
If you are nicked by someone, they cheat you, for example by charging you too much money. ( AM INFORMAL )
College students already are being nicked, but probably don’t realize it.
= rip off
VERB : be V-ed
6.
Nick is used in expressions such as ‘ in good nick ’ or ‘ in bad nick ’ to describe the physical condition of someone or something. ( BRIT INFORMAL )
His ribs were damaged, but other than that he’s in good nick...
Tom’s house is actually in better nick than mine.
PHRASE : v-link PHR
7.
If you say that something happens in the nick of time , you are emphasizing that it happens at the last possible moment.
Seems we got here just in the nick of time...
= just in time
PHRASE : usu PHR after v [ emphasis ]