Mickey
noun
a drink, usually alcoholic, to which a drug, purgative, or the like, has been secretly added, that renders the unsuspecting drinker helpless.
Mickey
American
[mik-ee]
/ ˈmɪk i /
noun
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Mickeys
plural
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Also called Mickey Finn. Slang. a drink, usually alcoholic, to which a drug, purgative, or the like, has been secretly added, that renders the unsuspecting drinker helpless.
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(often lowercase) Also a potato, especially a roasted Irish potato.
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a male or female given name.
adjective
mickey
1
British
/ ˈmɪkɪ /
noun
mickey
2
British
/ ˈmɪkɪ /
noun
mickey
3
British
/ ˈmɪkɪ /
noun
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Origin of Mickey
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Whether walking in freezing rain without an umbrella or wearing Mickey Mouse ears around campus, Zamorano always knows what he’s doing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
“He obliterates the rest of the skill position guys,” said Mickey Marotti, the Buckeyes’ strength and performance coach.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
In a message to another family member she wrote: "It's very sad to see, I am keeping strong, Mickey is half the man he was."
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Don’t ask his father, Mickey, what Fine might do next or any day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Strangely, though, there’s still some merchandise: there’s a Mickey Mouse phone I recognize from some way back part of childhood.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
"Where property developers are just taking the mickey, or just excess profiteering, as we know absolutely goes on... let's challenge that," he said.
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026
You take the mickey out of yourself and other people.
From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2024
Former captain Michael Vaughan has warned England not to "take the mickey out of the game" after a sloppy second day allowed Sri Lanka back into the final Test at The Kia Oval.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2024
"My friends all take the mickey," he joked.
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2024
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From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Guy L. Steele
Mickey 17 remembers the pain of all prior Mickeys, from the original through 16.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2025
In Columbia, South Carolina, Laura Chatterton and her husband, Chris Chatterton, both 36, have Disney merchandise throughout their home and pay homage to hidden Mickeys found throughout the parks.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 15, 2023
Mixed with the collection of stuffed Mickeys and Minnies are several Cabbage Patch Kids, Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy, and all kinds of other dolls.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 12, 2020
When Mickey Mouse starred in the 1933 cartoon “The Mail Pilot,” little pilot Mickeys flew off the toy shelves.
From Washington Post ● May 8, 2018
And two things: first, I've got an eye on the Mickeys of this city.
From Michael O'Halloran by Gene Stratton-Porter
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