The punctuation mark \.
Used erroneously in reference to, or in reading out, the ordinary slash, that is, the punctuation mark /.
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To escape (a metacharacter) by prepending a backslash that serves as an escape character, thereby forming an escape sequence.
Often in the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition, state.
The point where the wall of the court meets the floor.
One of the single-stranded DNA segments produced during nick translation.
A police station or prison.
A small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch.
To make a cut at the side of the face.
To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.
To make ragged or uneven, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to deface, to mar.
To steal.
To arrest.
To make a crosscut or cuts on the underside of (the tail of a horse, in order to make the animal carry it higher).