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nikker

nikker is the alternative form of nicker.

Meaning of nicker

Noun (1)

nicker (plural nicker)

  1. (UK, slang) Pound sterling.
    • This coat cost me 50 nicker.

Noun (2)

nicker (plural nickers)

  1. A soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.
  2. A snigger or suppressed laugh.

Noun (3)

nicker (plural nickers)

  1. (obsolete, slang) One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with halfpence.
    • your modern musicians want art to defend their windows from common nickers1713-1714, John Arbuthnot, Memoirs of Martin Scriblerus
  2. 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.
  3. (informal) Someone who nicks (steals) something, a thief.
    • 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?1934, Eddie Browne, Road Pirate: The Confessions of a Motor Bandit, page 141

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Forms of nikker

pluralnikkers

Questions about nikker

What is nikker the alternative form of?
Nikker is the alternative form of nicker.

Words near nikker in the dictionary

  1. nikkeijin
  2. nikkeijins
  3. nikkeis
  4. Nikkel
  5. Nikkels
  6. nikker
  7. nikkers
  8. Nikki
  9. nikko
  10. Nikko fir
  11. Nikko firs

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