in good nick —(sl.) in good condition:
- It’s not a local ale. Last year it turned up in a couple of pubs, sometimes in good nick other times not so good.
in the nick—
1. (also: in the nick of time) at a critical moment when smth. urgently requires to be done:
- Opening our mail we were relieved to discover the catalog had arrived. Just in the nick.
2. (sl.) at a police station or in prison:
- Everybody in the nick had already been dubbed up for the night.