a game in which two players alternately remove one or more small items, such as matchsticks, from one of several rows or piles, the object being to take (or avoid taking) the last item remaining on the table
Word origin
C20: perhaps from archaic nim to take, from Old English niman
nim in American English
(nɪm)
verb transitive, verb intransitiveWord forms: nam (nɑm) or nimmed, ˈnomen (ˈnoʊmən) or nome (noʊm), ˈnimming
Archaic
to steal or pilfer
Word origin
ME nimen < OE niman: see -nomy
Examples of 'nim' in a sentence
nim
She would be like that at eighty, he thought, at a hundred, which was why she would never grow old, never lose her allure for nim.
Martin, Joy THE IMAGE OF LAURA
When I went into his office, Arnie was red in the face and staring incredulously at the sheaf of papers I had given nim.