Meaning of nicker | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Pound sterling.
   British, slang
2. A soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.
3. One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with halfpence.
   obsolete, slang
4. A type of mythological sea creature or sea monster; also, a water sprite; a nix or nixie; a mermaid or merman.
5. nigger.
   derogatory, ethnic, euphemistic, offensive, slur, vulgar
6. A snigger or suppressed laugh.
7. The cutting lip which projects downward at the edge of a boring bit and cuts a circular groove in the wood to limit the size of the hole that is bored.
8. Hippopotamus.
9. Someone who nicks (steals) something, a thief.
   informal

Equivalents

Examples

“This coat cost me 50 nicker.”

“Seems? Well, this seems to be a waste of my time. That is 900 nicker in any shop you're lucky enough to find one in. And you're complaining about 200? What school of finance did you study?”

“1713-1714, John Arbuthnot, Memoirs of Martin Scriblerus your modern musicians want art to defend their windows from common nickers”

“He […] was far more interested in the fact that I was a car thief and an expert driver than that I was a bandit. […] Car nicker, are you?”

“And in another tale, told at Kemnitz of the Nicker, as he is there called, when he asks the midwife how much he owes her, she answers that she will take no more from him than from other people.”

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