10 April 2013

nix

[niks]

Slang. noun

1. nothing.

adverb
2. no.

interjection
3. (used as an exclamation, especially of warning): Nix, the cops!

verb (used with object)
4. to veto; refuse to agree to; prohibit: to nix the project.

Origin:
1780–90; < German: variant of nichts nothing

Today’s aphorism

We can eradicate extreme poverty, because the power of the people is so much greater than the people in power.

– Bono

On this day

10 April 1919 – death of Emiliano Zapata Salazar, Mexican revolutionary.