nick (didn't we discuss this once before, in the distant past?) could be 'to take' -- and it is also used to mean 'to steal'.
(as it does in the song refrain):
Shine your buttons with brasso,
it's only tu'pence a tin,
you can buy it, or nick it from woolworths...
the song is a bawdy ballad, like the american folk song, 'Miss lucy had a steam boat, the steam boat had a bell,..."
i don't think we in US use nick (to take) in the sense of take to jail, but i think that nick to take/steal is used. (or is it just part of my personal lexis?)

there is also nick as in 'nick of time' -- no idea of that nick..

knickers (as knee high pantaloons) is an US meaning.. knickers in UK (perhaps because the first ones were knee high pantaloons) means lady's underpants--panties, as i would be more likely call them--(as in "don't get your knickers in a twist (lady)!")

my first thoughts about nick, is that its something you do when careless with a razor.. or knife. you can nick yourself, or the blade--but then i don't own a baseball bat, and have nver taken one down to the river to hit rocks!


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