mickey
See also: Mickey
English
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "US" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈmɪki/
Audio (CAN): (file)
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. [from the 1910s]
- 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. [from the 1930s]
- (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.
- (chiefly Ireland, informal) The penis. [from the 1900s]
- 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
- (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, informal) The vagina. [from the early 1900s]
- (Australia, informal) A well-known honeyeater, the Noisy Miner, Manorina melanocephala, of eastern Australia. [from the 1910s]
- (rural Australia, informal) A young bull, especially one that is unbranded and running wild. [from the 1870s]
- (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)
Derived terms
Related terms
- See take the mickey
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