Crossword clues for nicked
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nick \Nick\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nicked (n[i^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Nicking.]
To make a nick or nicks in; to notch; to keep count of or upon by nicks; as, to nick a stick, tally, etc.
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To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to create a nick[2] in, deliberately or accidentally; as, to nick the rim of a teacup.
And thence proceed to nicking sashes.
--Prior.The itch of his affection should not then Have nicked his captainship.
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To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.
Words nicking and resembling one another are applicable to different significations.
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To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.
The just season of doing things must be nicked, and all accidents improved.
--L'Estrange. To make a cross cut or cuts on the under side of (the tail of a horse, in order to make him carry it higher).
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: nick)
Usage examples of "nicked".
He yawned most of the journey to Donnybrook where he nicked a red light at fifty-five, slowed a little for the bend and sped up again along Morehampton Road.
As if coming out of a trance Fitty took his eyes from the bird and looked at me, then he dropped it on to the ground, so quickly that it seemed as if someone had shot it from his hand, and he nicked his hand twice as if to throw off contact with the poor thing.
Lampton tells me, a man from Aylesford once sold a hornless ox there, whose tail he had cut and nicked for a horse of the goliah breed.
She nicked out flat stones to make a deeper well for fat for lamps, and she dried new moss wicks, knapped a new set of knives, scrapers, saws, borers, and axes, searched the seashore for shells to make spoons, ladles, and small dishes.
Just in case his visitor was a tardy mutineer, he picked up the phaser he had acquired and nicked it into the palm of his hand.
No prints, but one of the firing pins perfectly matches the nicked shells we found at the Nite Owl.
From its lonesome perch, an unwatched TV set nicked frizzy pictures of a soap-opera character weeping for her boyfriend who had been dispatched to help keep peace in the Middle East.
But, and this reduced the big but to a smaller but, I was the bestest friend of Dave and if anything could be found and nicked, then Dave would be the boy to find and nick it.
With my penknife I had nicked out a crude slit in the lid for the coins.
She nicked the polluters, the dealers in banned biomaterials, the companies who crunched one gene sequence too many: it was up to the boffins to sort out the detail.
Polydorus, a man of indeterminate age, and seemingly no fouler than the next, went in carrying an old sword, much nicked and dented.
She was up in Huddersfield and coming back from seeing her one time I went crazy and got nicked doing 150 mph on my bike.
The bullet had nicked it, causing intraocular hemorrhage, the muzzle flash had seared it, and it was completely out of order.
His hands were clasped on his chest, large hands, nicked and scarred, a digger and rock gouger, a plowboy once.
Tony told a story about bathing naked with friends off Studland and how they had to empty wastebins and turn the black bags into rudimentary kilts to hitch back to Poole after their clothes were nicked.