Clues for the word "NICK"

We've had 130 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 262 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mirror Daily crossword on April 27, 2026.

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.