nicks

1. A small cut in a surface.
2. Senses connoting something small.
3. Often in the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition, state.

   The car I bought was cheap and in good nick.

4. (law enforcement) A police station or prison.

   He was arrested and taken down to Sun Hill nick [police station] to be charged.

1. To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.

   I nicked myself while I was shaving.

2. To fit into or suit, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.
3. To make a cut at the side of the face.
4. To steal.

   Someone’s nicked my bike!

5. (law enforcement) To arrest.

   The police nicked him climbing over the fence of the house he’d broken into.

verb

To give or call (someone) by a nickname; to style.

noun

A nix or nixie.

1. A familiar, invented given name for a person or thing used instead of the actual name of the person or thing.
2. A kind of byname that describes a person by a characteristic of that person.