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Definition of nim noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

nim

noun
 
/nɪm/
 
/nɪm/
[uncountable]
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  1. a game in which players take turns to take objects out of a number of piles, each trying to take the last object or trying to make another person take the last object
    Word Originearly 20th cent.: apparently from archaic nim ‘to take’ or from German nimm! ‘take!’, imperative of nehmen.
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