mickey

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪki/

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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.
   • 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.
3. (US, slang) American depression era term for a potato as in a "roasted mickey".
   • We roasted mickeys over a fire with two foot sticks.
4. (chiefly Ireland, informal) The penis.
   • He fell off the bike and injured his mickey.
5. (Cockney rhyming slang) piss, shortened and more commonly used form of Mickey Bliss.
6. (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)

1. 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.