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  mic

  noun

  microphone.
• Mic.
  Mic.

  abbreviation

  Micah.

mic

¹ American  

[mahyk] / maɪk /

noun

Informal.

• mics
  plural

1. microphone.

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idioms

1. drop the mic,

   1. to intentionally drop one’s microphone at the end of a speech or performance, displaying a bold confidence that it has been very impressive or cannot be topped.

   2. to say or do something with such a bold confidence.

      He clearly dropped the mic on his critics, effectively cutting off further discussion.

Mic. ² American  

abbreviation

Bible.

1. Micah.

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Mic. ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. Micah

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mic ² British  

/ maɪk /

noun

1. informal short for microphone

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• mics
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of mic

First recorded in 1960–65; by shortening

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Example Sentences

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mic Mic. mics

Then a mic is passed around so attendees can share their thoughts or rebuttals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

In February, while at a conference in Norway, he was caught on a hot mic telling a Greenlandic politician that “the check’s in the mail.”

From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026

This year, he’s been sitting in on open mic nights at the Clausen Museum, where performers entertain in a room filled with old cannery gear and a taxidermied 126.5-pound king salmon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

But when he steps up to the mic, the band relax.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

When the camera panned over to us, Abby passed the mic to me, and I stood.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

The נכון, constant, firm, occurs in Mic. iv.

From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg

Farther,--Decisive in favour of the Messianic explanation is also the passage Mic. v.

From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg

Bloodguiltiness those too incur who deprive the poor of the necessary means of support, Mic. iii.

From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg

If any thing make Zion liable to be plowed as a field, when the heads thereof judge for reward, Mic. iii.

From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields

But that passage of Jeremiah refers to Mic. iii.

From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg

Hot mics have embarrassed many a media professional.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

A high-school dropout, Chizi began doing stand-up at open mics in 2015.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

Podcasting can be a great business if you’re good at it, but I’m not sure anyone has ever been this adept at milking shareholder value out of a pair of mics.

From Slate ● Apr. 7, 2026

Even as celebrities began to take to the mics in the early 2020s, the KFC audience was loyal and advertiser revenue was stable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

I put the mics by the remote and sit on the edge of the rug.

From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner

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