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Nines vs Nixes - What's the difference?

nines | nixes |

As a noun nines

is .

As a verb nixes is

(nix).

nines

English

Noun

(head)
    • (en-plural noun)
  • (poker slang) A pair of .
    • He drew nines from the deck.

    nixes

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (nix)

    • nix

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) nix, colloquial form of . More at (l).

    Noun

    (-)
  • (colloquial): nothing.
    • Synonyms
    * nada * zip

    Verb

    (es)
  • To make something become nothing; to reject or cancel.
    • Nix the last order - the customer walked out.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=June 17 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Homer’s Triple Bypass” (season 4, episode 11; originally aired 12/17/1992) , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=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.”}}
  • To destroy or eradicate.

    • Related terms

    * / eighty-six * ixnay * mox nix

    References

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (es)
  • A treacherous water-spirit; a nixie.
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