definition of
nil

[1] #1 nil n. [nothing, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo] a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it". wn