0 past simple and past participle of nick --
1 to steal something: --
2 If the police nick someone, they catch them for committing a crime: --
I speak as someone with first-hand experience of car crime, having had one nicked on the way to a crime prevention conference during the general election campaign.
When the education welfare officer called round, she was confronted with the excuse that the school uniform had been nicked off the washing line.
But will the taking away of benefit prevent one incidence of aerosol spraying, one television being nicked or one drug being pushed?
The trade-off would be having to make a telephone call, set against the advantage of its being less likely that one's phone would be nicked.
These people must be put out of business, and they must be nicked on the occasions when they break the law.
She had to beg the money to pay off the fine and then got nicked begging the money to pay off the fine.
Where dispensing provisions have been set up, addicts have sometimes been nicked on the way out for trying to steal, say, a bottle of whisky.
I should have thought that gave ample time in which to train our customs officers to know the difference between nicked and docked horses.
