n. A hollow cut or slight depression made in the surface of anything; a notch.n. A score or reckoning: so called from the old practice of keeping reckonings on tallies or notched sticks.n. A false bottom in a beer-can, by which customers were cheated, the nick below and the froth above filling up part of the measure.To make a nick or notch in; notch; cut or mark with nicks or notches.To sever with a snip or single cut, as with shears.To cut short; abridge. See nick, n., 3.To break or crack; smash as the nickers used to do. See nicker, 2.In coal-mining, to cut (the coal) on the side, after kirving, holing, or undercutting.To nod; wink.n. Point, especially point of time: as, in the nick of—that is, on the point of (being or doing something).n. The exact point (of time) which accords with or is demanded by the necessities of the case; the critical or right moment; the very moment: used chiefly in the phrases in the nick or in the nick of time—that is, at the right moment, just when most needed or demanded.n. A lucky or winning throw in the game of hazard: as, eleven is the nick to seven. See hazard, 1.To strike or hit right; hit or hit upon exactly; fit into; suit.In gaming, to throw or turn up; hit or hit upon.To delude or deceive; cozen; cheat, as at dice.To catch in the act.To fit; unite or combine; be adapted for combining: said, in stock-breeding, of the crossing of one strain of blood with another.To suit; compare; be comparable.In the game of hazard, to throw a winning number. Compare nick, n., 3.To bet; gamble.n. The devil: usually with the addition of Old.To nickname; hence, to annoy or tease by nicknaming.n. In type-founding, a small groove, made by the mold on the front side and lower part of the body of American type.n. In violin-making, one of the little notches cut midway in the side of an f-hole or sound-hole, to indicate the proper location for the bridge.n. In lumbering, same as undercut, 2.n. In craps, a throw of 7 or 11, which wins all the stakes for the caster immediately.