mickey
See also: Mickey
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈmɪki/
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Noun
mickey (plural mickeys)
- (chiefly Canada, informal) A small bottle of liquor, holding 375 ml or 13 oz., typically shaped to fit in one's pocket.
- While you're at the liquor store, can you pick up another mickey of rye?
- (US, slang) A Mickey Finn; a beverage, usually alcoholic, that has been drugged.
- (US, slang) American depression era term for a potato as in a "roasted mickey".
- We roasted mickeys over a fire with two foot sticks.
- (chiefly Ireland, informal) The penis.
- He fell off the bike and injured his mickey.
- 2004, “Take a Toast”, in The Love Never Dies, performed by Paperboy et al.:
- Five Fingers rapped around my mickey, being /ke/[??]
Smokin on this dickey in the Fifty /se/[??], and shift
- (Cockney rhyming slang) piss, shortened and more commonly used form of Mickey Bliss.
- (computing) The resolution of a mouse, used as a unit of length.
Verb
mickey (third-person singular simple present mickeys, present participle mickeying, simple past and past participle mickeyed)
- To secretly slip drugs somebody's drink.
- 1951, The Scented Flesh, page 46:
- Sam said he hadn't mickeyed me.
- 1994, Dana Stabenow, A Cold-Blooded Business, →ISBN, page 202:
- You mickeyed my drink, didn't you?.
- 2005, Wildwood Road, →ISBN, page 65:
- No question now, as far as she was concerned, that someone had mickeyed his beer.
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Derived terms
Related terms
- See take the mickey
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