Nix

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /nɪks/
• Rhymes: -ɪks
• Homophones: nicks

From German nix, colloquial form of nichts ("nothing")

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. Compare also Dutch niks ("nothing"), informal for niets ("nothing"). More at naught.

Full definition of nix

Noun

1. (colloquial): nothing.

Synonyms

• nada
• zip

Verb

1. To make something become nothing; to reject or cancel.Nix the last order - the customer walked out.
• 2012, June 17, Nathan Rabin, TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Homer’s Triple Bypass” (season 4, episode 11; originally aired 12/17/1992), At work Mr. Burns spies Homer munching complacently on a donut and hisses that each donut Homer shoves into his fat face brings him one donut closer to the poisoned donut Mr. Burns has ordered thrown into the mix as a form of culinary Russian Roulette, only to learn from Smithers that the plant’s lawyers ultimately nixed the poisoned donut plan because “they consider it murder.”
2. To destroy or eradicate.

Related terms

• 86
  eighty-six
• ixnay
• mox nix

Noun

1. A treacherous water-spirit; a nixie.----