nice adj.1
(US black) feeling well, happy, at one with the world, esp. as a result of taking drugs or drink.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Duke 3: That’s the way I dig it. I do it nice. | |
| Scene (1996) 10: I used this mornin and I’m still nice. | |
| Snakes (1971) 56: Let’s put on some sounds while we got our heads nice. | |
| Corner (1998) 123: I’m nice [...] What can I say? I have skills. | |
| Source Aug. 48: The Dog’s a little nice right now; he doesn’t mean what he’s saying. |
In phrases
1. often as admonition, to be friendly or considerate, to behave oneself.
| West Side Story I i: You’re gonna make nice with them PRs from now on. | |
| Bug Jack Barron 26: Make nice, Jack, baby, he warned himself grimly. | |
| Fantastic Four Annual 11: Awright spoilsport – I’ll make nice with our little guests – fer now! | |
| Patriot Game (1985) 24: It’s a little under fifteen years, if you make nice and don’t stir up any ruckus. | |
| Split Decision [ebook] Now that I didn’t have to worry about making nice with Whit, I could let that tiger out of its cage. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Seven Demons 129: ‘[T]here will be consequences but we will make nice later’. |
2. to curry favour, to act in a friendly manner (whether or not one means it).
| Love Is a Racket 49: What are you trying to do? Make nice so I’ll go soft on you? | |
| Plainclothes Naked (2002) 105: Mom wanted to make nice. Alibied her pride and joy. | |
| (con. 1962) Enchanters 125: Ratdog Bobby made nice-nice. |
3. to caress.
| Tattoo of a Naked Lady 121: She made nice with my nads. | |
| Drop Dead, My Lovely (2005) 178: A woman comes along and says lets make nice. |
SE in slang uses
In compounds
see under bit n.1 (3b)
(US campus) a good-looking man or woman.
| Campus Sl. Mar. |
see good egg n.
(US campus) used ironically by men, a sexually permissive woman.
| Current Sl. III:3. |
an attractive, if over-made up and over-dressed young woman.
| Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era. |
In phrases
(Aus.) interestingly attractive or stylish; used ironically from the perspective of someone with poor taste.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | That’s Unusual 155: It is nice. It’s different. It’s unusual . | |
| Essential Baby 8 June 🌐 I come back to Kim’s baby...Epiny Rae. Why was that joke so funny? Because Kim just made up a name that sounded ‘nice, unusual, different’ . | |
| Swear Down n.p.: Yeah! It’s gorgeous. - Tell the truth, he says. - Well ... all right. I don’t actually love it, she says. She traces a finger along the arc of numerals and letters and then rubs the glass with the sleeve of her sweatshirt. - But it is nice. Different. Unusual . | |
 | Dly Mail (London) 21 Oct. 🌐 Nice, different, unusual! Ash Pollard made sure to turn heads in an eye-catching hot pink jacket teamed with a straw beret. | |
| TV Tonight 12 Feb. 🌐 28 year old Faryn is ready for someone ‘nice, unusual, different’ and her mum Kerryn and bestie Laura are wine-time ready to assist . |
see under eye n.
1. (US/W.I.) to embellish, improve, dress up esp. to ingratiate oneself.
![[WI]](/static/img/flags/wi.png "West Indies") | (con. 1940s) ‘Solja Bwoys’ in Jamaica Labrish 97: Go train up strong an fit, / Nice up yuh self, look boasify, / Galang go do yuh bit. | |
| White Talk Black Talk 116: The aim especially being to brighten up the party [...] to ‘nice up the dance’. | |
| Gone Girl 247: I spent about $500 on items to nice-up my cabin—good sheets, a decent lamp, towels. |
2. (UK black) to improve, to make things good for.
| Dirty South 32: To further nice up my wallet [...] I was also shotting [...] anywhere else where skunk was craved. |