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NICKS

5 letters

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Classic 2 pts
Big 2 pts
Super Big 2 pts

NICKS is a valid 5-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 2 in Classic, 2 in Big, and 2 in Super Big Boggle.

NICKS root NICK-s

Word family

NICK 1 NICKING-ing 5 NICKED-ed 3
noun
  1. archaicA particular place or point considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.
    • in the nick of time
  2. datedA notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution.
  3. A small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch.
  4. One of the single-stranded DNA segments produced during nick translation.
  5. The point where the wall of the court meets the floor.
  6. CommonwealthIrelandUKcolloquialOften in the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition, state.
    • The car I bought was cheap and in good nick.
  7. CommonwealthIrelandUKslangA police station or prison.
    • He was arrested and taken down to Sun Hill nick [police station] to be charged.
    • He’s just been released from Shadwell nick [prison] after doing ten years for attempted murder.
  8. InternetabbreviationclippingClipping of nickname.
    • a user’s reserved nick on an IRC network
  9. archaicA nix or nixie (“water spirit”).
verb
  1. transitiveTo make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.
    • I nicked myself while I was shaving.
  2. transitiveTo make ragged or uneven, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to deface, to mar.
  3. raretransitiveTo make a crosscut or cuts on the underside of (the tail of a horse, in order to make the animal carry it higher).
  4. obsoletetransitiveTo fit into or suit, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.
  5. figurativelyobsoletesometimestransitiveTo hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.
  6. obsoletetransitiveTo hit the ball with the edge of the bat and produce a fine deflection.
  7. obsoletetransitiveTo throw or turn up (a number when playing dice); to hit upon.
  8. transitiveTo make a cut at the side of the face.
  9. CommonwealthIrelandUKcolloquialtransitiveTo steal.
    • Someone’s nicked my bike!
  10. CommonwealthIrelandUKslangtransitiveTo arrest.
    • The police nicked him climbing over the fence of the house he’d broken into.
  11. obsoletetransitiveTo give or call (someone) by a nickname; to style.