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mike up

verb

  1. to supply with a microphone

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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“When you’re watching major sports, like an NFL game, they’ll mike up one player, and you get to see a little bit more into them. As curlers, because we’re miked up all the time for TV because it makes it so much better, I think people really start feeling a connection with us as individuals, and I think that has helped it stay on TV. Because people are like, ‘What are they going to say next?’”

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When his father, a successful rugby player, realised what had happened, he drove and picked Mike up on the side of the road.

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“Absolutely terrifying for me. I just couldn’t do it. Literally couldn’t. I’d turn the mike up and I’d be like—” She mimed being struck mute.

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Mike: Up until the moment the news broke, everyone I spoke to had expected de Blasio to back the cap, come what may.

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The camera is pointed toward the floor, and I am dragging Mike up to the roof.

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