mickey
see also: Mickey
Pronunciation
  • (America) IPA: /ˈmɪki/
Noun

mickey (plural mickeys)

  1. (chiefly, Canada, informal) A small bottle of liquor, holding 375 ml or 13 oz., typically shaped to fit in one's pocket. [from the 1910s]
    While you're at the liquor store, can you pick up another mickey of rye?
  2. (US, slang) A Mickey Finn; a beverage, usually alcoholic, that has been drugged. [from the 1930s]
  3. (US, slang) American depression era term for a potato as in a "roasted mickey". [from the 1930s]
    We roasted mickeys over a fire with two foot sticks.
  4. (chiefly, Ireland, informal) The penis. [from the 1900s]
    He fell off the bike and injured his mickey.
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  5. (AU, NZ, Ireland, informal) The vagina. [from the early 1900s]
  6. (AU, informal) A well-known honeyeater, the Noisy Miner, Manorina melanocephala, of eastern Australia. [from the 1910s]
  7. (rural Australia, informal) A young bull, especially one that is unbranded and running wild. [from the 1870s]
  8. (Cockney rhyming slang) piss, shortened and more commonly used form of Mickey Bliss.
  9. (computing) The resolution of a mouse, used as a unit of length.
Verb

mickey (mickeys, present participle mickeying; past and past participle mickeyed)

  1. To secretly slip drugs into somebody's drink.
Related terms
Mickey
Pronunciation Noun

mickey (plural mickeys)

  1. (slang) A Mickey Finn; a beverage, usually alcoholic, that has been drugged.
  2. (Canada) A 375-milliliter (13.2 imperial fluid ounce; 12.7 US fl oz) bottle of liquor, such as whiskey.
  3. (Ulster, derogatory) a Catholic
Proper noun
  1. A diminutive of the male given names Michael, Mike or Mick.
  2. A diminutive of the female given name Michaela.



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