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Old Nick

noun

Informal.
  1. the devil; Satan.


Old Nick

noun

  1. informal.
    a jocular name for Satan
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of Old Nick1

First recorded in 1660–70
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The protest made Old Nick’s Pub the latest target of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric that’s increasingly targeting drag story times across the U.S.

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Old Nick Williams is opting to donate its cleaning products, along with Durham Distillery and others, to hospitality businesses.

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Their best answer to date is the other “goblin metal” closely associated with cobalt, nickel, whose name comes from a German spirit closely related to Old Nick.

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The outside of Old Nick’s is unprepossessing and the inside only a little better.

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His deputy called him diabolus bibliothecae, “the devil of the library”; others referred to him simply as Old Nick.

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