Nick

Nick may refer to:

  • A short form for Nicholas or Nikhil
  • Nick (DNA), an element of DNA structure
  • Nickelodeon, a television network
    • Nickelodeon (around the world), for other versions of Nickelodeon and their sister channels around the globe.
    • Nick Jr., again another Nickelodeon channel targeted for pre-schoolers
    • Nicktoons (TV channel), once again another Nickelodeon channel and home to cartoons
    • Nicktoons
    • Nick at Nite, a midnight TV block on Nickelodeon
    • Nicktoons Studios
    • TeenNick replaced The N on 9/28/09
  • The Japanese World War II fighter Kawasaki Ki-45, Allied codename Nick
  • The following characters and people are known by the name Nick
    • Nick Petrovic, Famous Child Psychologist
    • Nick D. Kim, the cartoonist
    • "Old Nick", a nickname for The Devil
    • Saint Nicholas (often referred to as "St. Nick"), the common name for Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Myra
    • St. Nick, a nickname for Santa Claus
    • Nick the Greek, Greek gambler
    • Nick Carraway, the protagonist of the novel The Great Gatsby
    • Nick G. a character in the anime movie five centimeters per second
    • Désirée Nick, German actress and writer
    • Nick Jonas, member of pop-rock band the Jonas Brothers
    • Nick Carter (musician), Member of the pop boy band Backstreet Boys
    • Nick, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, north Poland
    • Nick Brown, politician
    • Nick (Guitar Hero), character in Guitar Hero World Tour
    • Nick Bruno, eighth president of the University of Louisiana at Monroe
    • Nick Downing, American association football (soccer) player
    • Nick Stokes, a fictional character from the TV series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
    • Nick, a playable character in Left 4 Dead 2
    • Nick Wheeler, A Guitarist in the band The All-American Rejects
  • Nick, British euphemism for a police station, or for the process of being arrested, or a slang term for theft
  • Nick, sporting term, particularly in cricket, synonym for a competitor's playing form

Famous quotes containing the word nick:

    “I’ve met a lot of murderers in my day, but Dr. Garth, whatever he is, is the first man I’ve ever met who was polite to me and still made the chills run up and down my back.”
    —Robert D. Andrews. Nick Grindé. Police detective, Before I Hang, describing his meeting with Dr. Garth (1940)

    “His pain was too great. He begged me for the simple mercy of death. And I could do nothing else but help him leave a world that had become a sleepless, tortured nightmare to him.”
    —Robert D. Andrews, and Nick Grindé. Dr. John Garth (Boris Karloff)

    “Only he who has had the good fortune to read them in the nick of time, in the most perceptive and recipient season of life, can give any adequate account of them.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)