hickey

See also: Hickey

English

A hickey on the neck.

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɪk.i/

• Audio (AU):

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• Rhymes: -ɪki

Noun

hickey (plural hickeys)

1. (US, slang) A bruise-like mark made during petting by pressing the mouth to the skin on one’s partner’s body and sucking. [from 1934]

   Synonyms: love bite, lovebite, knot

2. (informal, slang) An object whose name is unknown or cannot be recalled. [from 1909]
3. (printing) A printing defect caused by foreign matter on the printing surface resulting in a ring where the ink is missing, appearing as a spot of ink surrounded by a halo.
4. Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury. [from 1915]
5. A tool for making smooth, semicircular bends in conduit and pipe.

   Synonym: conduit bender

6. (US, slang, business, finance) An unintended negative outcome or loss in regards to a deal or action, often preceded by the words "taking a ..." or "took a ... ".

   Farmer Jones took a hickey on his soybean crop when the flood washed the seeds away.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:thingy

Derived terms

• doohickey, dohickey

Translations

bruise-like mark

• Bulgarian: смучка f (smučka)
• Catalan: xuclet (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 吻痕 (zh) (wěnhén), (slang; literally, "strawberry") 草莓 (zh) (cǎoméi)

• Czech: cucflek (cs) m
• Dutch: zuigplek (nl) f, zuigvlek f
• Finnish: fritsu (fi)
• French: suçon (fr) m, sucette (fr) f (Canadian)
• German: Knutschfleck (de) m
• Icelandic: sogblettur m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: plaicín suirí m
• Italian: succhiotto (it) m
• Japanese: キスマーク (kisumāku)
• Norwegian: sugemerke n
• Polish: malinka (pl) f
• Portuguese: chupão (pt)
• Russian: засо́с (ru) m (zasós)
• Spanish: chupetón (es) m (Spain), chupón (es) m (Latin America), chupete (es) m (Mexico, slang)
• Swedish: sugmärke (sv) n
• Tagalog: tsikinini

referring to an object whose name is unknown or cannot be recalled

• Czech: bazmek (cs) m
• Dutch: ding (nl) n, spul (nl) n
• French: truc (fr) m, machin (fr) m, bidule (fr) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Spanish: cacharro (es) m, chisme (es) m, vaina (es) f (Caribbean, Central America, Colombia), coso (es) m (River Plate region)
• Swedish: mackapär (sv), mojäng (sv), grunka (sv), manick (sv), grej (sv)

printing defect caused by foreign matter on the printing surface

• Czech: pecka (cs) f
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swelling in a tissue area

• Dutch: zwelling (nl) f, knobbel (nl) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

tool for making smooth, semicircular bends in conduit and pipe

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Further reading

• hickey on Wikipedia.Wikipedia