0 present participle of nick
1 to steal something:
2 If the police nick someone, they catch them for committing a crime:
The overall stability of the genome is always under threat of endonuclease nicking and exonuclease digestion.
The slight narrowing of the retinal vessels and arteriovenous crossing changes (nicking, banking, concealment) may also reflect advancing years.
I am glad to say that there is very little nicking done in this country.
To say that that amounts to a concession is like saying that a burglar has done one a favour in not nicking all one's possessions.
I began by working with children who were nicking off school—truants.
Who gets all the blame for nicking pension funds?
There is a considerable amount of this nicking of the ends of the wings of ducks, particularly of rare breed ducks.
Pushers create a dependency market for which they have guaranteed customers who have less and less money and thus go thieving, burgling and nicking.
