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nicked

verbadjectiveattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//nɪkt//

Having one or more nicks; notched.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of nicksimple past and past participle of nick

Etymology

From nick + -ed.

adjective

  1. 1

    Having one or more nicks; notched.

  2. 2

    slangStolen.

  3. 3

    slangCaptured (by police); arrested.

    Get yer trousers on, you're nicked.

    "Mr Punch," I said. "You're nicked."

Forms

comparative
more nicked
superlative
most nicked
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).