nick

1. 1.

   an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)

   Synonymsdentdinggouge

   Broaderblemish

   Narrowerdig
2. 2.

   (British slang) a prison

   “he's in the nick”

   Broaderprison

   slang · United Kingdom

3. 3.

   a small cut

   Synonymsnotchsnick

   Broadercut

Other forms of nick

plural

nicks·

past tense

nicked·

present participle

nicking·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about nick

What does nick mean?

nick means "cut slightly, with a razor". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nick?

nick has 1 syllable: nick. In IPA it is /ˈnɪk/.

What is another word for nick?

Close synonyms include snick, chip, dent, ding, gouge. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nick a common word?

nick is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with nick?

1 word rhymes with nick. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.