# nicked

Pronunciation: say "NIKT" /nɪkt/

## Verb

1. Past tense and past participle of nick. — simple past and past participle of nick
   - Simple: Past tense and past participle of nick. Use this form when talking about something that happened earlier.
   - _He nicked his chin twice while shaving this morning._
   - _The old cutting board has been nicked and scarred by years of hard use._

## Adjective

2. Marked with one or more small cuts or notches.
   - Simple: Having one or more small cuts or notches in it.
   - _The chef retired the nicked knife and ordered a new set._
   - _After decades of service, the oak bar was nicked and stained along its front edge._
3. Taken from its owner by theft. *(slang, Commonwealth, Ireland, UK)*
   - Simple: Taken by someone who had no right to take it.
   - _He got six months for selling nicked car parts out of his garage._
   - _I wouldn't touch that telly if I were you; it's almost certainly nicked._
4. Caught and arrested by the police. *(slang, Commonwealth, Ireland, UK)*
   - Simple: Caught and held by the police.
   - _"Right, sunshine, you're nicked," the sergeant said, snapping on the cuffs._
   - _He'd dodged the police for months before he finally got nicked at the airport._

## Origin

Formed from nick with the suffix -ed.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/nicked (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).