nix v.
1. (US) to forbid, to veto, to reject, to cancel or eliminate.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Discoveries (1774) 42: Nix in whideling; don’t speak. | |
| Whole Art of Thieving [as cit. 1753]. | |
| ‘Cant Lang. of Thieves’ Monthly Mag. 7 Jan. [as cit. 1753]. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Vocab. Criminal Sl. 31: eye full [...] The object of scrutiny or of attentive observation. [...] Example: ‘Nix Crackin’! The mark on your left is getting an eye full.’. | |
| ‘Hoodwink’ in Detective Story 30 Apr. 🌐 I’ll stick if he’s really pickled, but nix if he ain’t. | |
| On Broadway 9 Mar. [synd. col.] When ‘Pins and Needles’ gives that command performance [...] it won’t sing ‘Four little Angels Are We.’ The Labor Dep’t nixed it. | |
| ‘Solid Meddlin’ in People’s Voice (NY) 7 Mar. 33/1: Let’s nix out the poetry and start cookin’ with gas. | |
| Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive 109: The cool fools who nix all schools. | |
| Rumble on the Docks (1955) 293: Fitz was all for working over the Diggers [...] but Bobo nixed it. | |
| Mad mag. July 23: [heading] Hip Sen Nixes Hangnail Spec. | |
| Big Gold Dream 152: They’ve been trying to proposition me into helping them rob some woman, but I nixed them off. | |
| Demon (1979) 50: He quickly nixed that idea. | |
| Sl. U. | |
| Source Nov. 118: The project was nixed. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | (con. 1960s-70s) Top Fellas 113/2: Miller shirts were also nixed. | |
| Drop Dead, My Lovely (2005) 34: I nixed kicking it off with the wife. | |
| ‘The San Diego Zoo’ in Broken 130: ‘I nixed it’ [i.e. a request for an interview]. |
2. (US black) of an action, to bring to an end, to abandon.
| Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 25 Nov. 7/1: After that frail fling [...] I will nix this scribe. | |
 | N.Y. Amsterdam Star-News 7 Feb. 16: Nix that frail. |
3. (US black/Harlem) to leave, to depart (from).
| Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive 12: Ole man, it’s about a tray of haircuts on the backbeat when I nixes my pad. |
In phrases
(US) enough of, no more of.
| Down the Line 22: Nix on the smart talk, Sammy! | |
| Enemy to Society 154: Oh, nix on that, Steve, you don’t know what you’re talking about. | |
| White Moll 172: ‘Nix on that stuff!’ returned the one designated as Pinkie. | |
| Capricornia (1939) 355: Nix on your chyackin’. | |
| ‘A Sunday in April’ in To Whom It May Concern 159: Nix! Nix on that. | |
| Sheeper 278: Did I join that ruddy boy’s club called ‘The Free Swingers?’ Nix on that. | |
| Reflections on a Mountain Summer 67: I keep telling her: nix on the books, Huguette, your salad days are numbered. | |
| Desirable Aliens 124: Nix on the champagne. | |
| Red Sex, White Drugs, Blue Rock N Roll 14: I ordered my usual: turkey sandwich with two cups of java, nix on the moo juice. |
1. to kill, to murder.
| Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 8 Feb. 7/1: The pounders up here are doing the Indian act because a gate of color had a heated beef with a pale pan and the sepia [...] nixed the gray out. |
2. (also nix off) to throw away, to get rid of a person or object.
| N.Y. Amsterdam News 10 June 16: Bobby Brown had better nix out Belmont if he expects to get his ring back. | |
| Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 24 May 11/2: Nix Out — To eliminate, don’t want any part of. Alice Dixon [...] has completely nixed out Atlantic City as her happy hunting ground. | |
| ‘Observation Post’ in N.Y. Age 18 Oct. 9/6: [I]t would serve him very well to nix off New Rochelle and his gel. | |
| New Hepsters Dict. in Calloway (1976) 258: nix out (v.): to eliminate, get rid of. Ex., ‘I nixed that chick out last week’; ‘I nixed my garments’ (undressed). | |
| Really the Blues 122: They were going to leave the milkman a note telling him to nix out the moo-juice. | |
| Book of Negro Folklore 486: nix out : To freeze out, to eliminate. Two in love nix out all others. |
3. to go; thus, fig., to die.
| Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive 29: To nix out for good, or to cop a nod no more. [Ibid.] 102: He’d just nixed out from his wheelchair, stashed by the step-off. |