Definition of "nicker" in English

noun

1. (British, slang) Pound sterling.

   • This coat cost me 50 nicker.

noun

1. A soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.

2. A snigger or suppressed laugh.

verb

1. To make a soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.

2. To produce a snigger or suppressed laugh.

noun

1. (obsolete, slang) One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with halfpence.

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

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.

verb

1. (UK, informal) To snatch or steal.

noun

1. A type of mythological sea creature or sea monster; also, a water sprite; a nix or nixie; a mermaid or merman.

2. Hippopotamus.

noun

1. (euphemistic, vulgar, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) nigger.