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Nim
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Nim has 1 sense
- nim(n = noun.act) - game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them; in some versions the object is to take the last remaining matchstick on the table and in other versions the object is to avoid taking the last remaining matchstick on the table; is a kind of table game
CIDE DICTIONARY
Nim, v. t. [AS. niman. Nimble.].
To take; to steal; to filch. [1913 Webster]
"This canon it in his hand nam."
[1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Nim, n. a game in which two players must alternately take one or more objects from one of several heaps and seek either to avoid taking or to take the last remaining object.
Etymology
20th c.: perh. f. archaic nim take (as NIMBLE), or G nimm imper. of nehmen take
ROGET THESAURUS
Nim
Stealing
VB steal, thieve, rob, mug, purloin, pilfer, filch, prig, bag, nim, crib, cabbage, palm, abstract, appropriate, plagiarize, convey away, carry off, abduct, kidnap, crimp, make off with, walk off with, run off with, run away with, spirit away, seize, plunder, pillage, rifle, sack, loot, ransack, spoil, spoliate, despoil, strip, sweep, gut, forage, levy blackmail, pirate, pickeer, maraud, lift cattle, poach, smuggle, run, badger, bail up, hold up, stick up, bunco, bunko, filibuster, swindle, peculate, embezzle, sponge, mulct, rook, bilk, pluck, pigeon, fleece, defraud, obtain under false pretenses, live by one's wits, rob Peter to pay Paul, borrow of Peter to pay Paul, set a thief to catch a thief, disregard the distinction between meum and tuum, fence, launder, launder money.
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