NIM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nim mean? 

• NIM (noun)
  The noun NIM has 1 sense:

1. game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them; in some versions the object is to take the last remaining matchstick on the table and in other versions the object is to avoid taking the last remaining matchstick on the table

  Familiarity information: NIM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NIM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them; in some versions the object is to take the last remaining matchstick on the table and in other versions the object is to avoid taking the last remaining matchstick on the table

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("nim" is a kind of...):

table game (a game that is played on a table)