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What does nick mean?

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Noun
  1. A small cut in a surface.
    1. (now rare) A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.
    2. (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.
  2. Meanings connoting something small.
    1. (cricket) A small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch.
    2. (real tennis) The point where the wall of the court meets the floor.
    3. (genetics) One of the single-stranded DNA segments produced during nick translation.
  3. (archaic) A nixie, or water-sprite.
  4. (Britain, slang) In the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition.
  5. (Britain, law enforcement slang) A police station or prison.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.
    1. To make a cross cut or cuts on the underside of (the tail of a horse, in order to make the animal carry it higher).
    2. To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in.
  2. To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.
    1. To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.
    2. To throw or turn up (a number when playing dice); to hit upon.
    3. (transitive, cricket) to hit the ball with the edge of the bat and produce a fine deflection
  3. (transitive, Britain, slang) To steal.
  4. (transitive, Britain, law enforcement slang) To arrest.
Noun
  1. (Internet) Clipping of nickname.
Verb
  1. (obsolete, transitive) To nickname; to style.
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