Definition of nick

• n. - An evil spirit of the waters.
• n. - A notch cut into something
• n. - A score for keeping an account; a reckoning.
• n. - A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution.
• n. - A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; nicks in china.
• n. - A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.
• v. t. - To make a nick or nicks in; to notch; to keep count of or upon by nicks; as, to nick a stick, tally, etc.
• v. t. - To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in.
• v. t. - To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.
• v. t. - To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.
• v. t. - To make a cross cut or cuts on the under side of (the tail of a horse, in order to make him carry ir higher).
• v. t. - To nickname; to style.