Meaning

• A small cut in a surface.

• Senses connoting something small.

• Often in the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition, state.

  "The car I bought was cheap and in good nick."

• (law enforcement) A police station or prison.

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

Meaning

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

  "I nicked myself while I was shaving."

• To fit into or suit, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.

• To make a cut at the side of the face.

• To steal.

  "Someone’s nicked my bike!"

• (law enforcement) To arrest.

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