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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
nix /nɪks/ informal

▶pronoun nothing. ▶exclamation

1 expressing denial or refusal.

2 Brit. dated used as a warning that a person in authority is approaching. [perh. from the obs. phr. keep nix ‘to watch, guard’.]

▶verb chiefly N. Amer. put an end to; cancel: he nixed the deal.

– origin C18: from Ger., colloq. var. of nichts ‘nothing’.

'nix' also found in these Oxford entries:

eighty-six - nit - nival - niveous

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