nicker

1. (UK, slang)Pound sterling.

   This coat cost me 50 nicker.

2. A soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.

   the characteristic sounds made by a horse

3. A snigger or suppressed laugh.

4. 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.

5. (informal)Someone who nicks (steals) something, a thief.

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

7. Hippopotamus.

8. (derogatory, ethnic, euphemistic, offensive, slur, vulgar)Nigger.

9. (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

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