nicking n.
an arrest.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | You Flash Bastard 40: But complaints were even arising from the unimportant nickings nowadays, and they were hampering police efficiency. | |
| A Prisoner’s Tale 16: He would have taken his nicking had he really been involved in the blag and it had come on top. | |
| Brown Bread in Wengen [ebook] ‘[L]ikes to make a nicking just before he finishes so he has to stay on for the paperwork, three hours’ overtime’. | |
| A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun 12: One of the things we had learned from previous nickings was never to keep evidence around. |