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Mick

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–noun (often lowercase) Slang: Usually Disparaging and Offensive.
a person of Irish birth or descent.
Origin:
1870–75, Americanism; generic use of Mick, hypocoristic form of Michael
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mick   (mĭk)   
n.   Offensive Slang
Used as a disparaging term for a person of Irish birth or descent.

[Probably from the name Mick, nickname for Michael.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
mickey

and micky
  1. n.
    a hip flask for liquor. : He took a little swig out of a mickey he carries in his pocket.

  2. Go to Mickey (Finn). :
  3. n.
    a small bottle of wine. : See if you can get a mickey of something for a buck.
  4. n.
    a tranquilizer. (Drugs.) : Whatever that mickey was you gave me, it helped.

  5. and mick. an easy or trivial college course. (From mickey mouse sense 2.) : I've got a light load this quarter. Three micks and two education courses.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

mick 
derogatory slang for "Irishman," 1856, from nickname of common Irish name Michael (q.v.).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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