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Mick⋅ey

  [mik-ee] noun, plural -eys, adjective
–noun
1. 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.
2. (often lowercase) Also, micky. a potato, esp. a roasted Irish potato.
3. a male or female given name.
–adjective
4. (sometimes lowercase) mickey mouse.
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Origin:
1925–30, Americanism; Mick (see Mick ) + -ey 2
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mick·ey   (mĭk'ē)   
n.   pl. mick·eys

  1. Informal A roasted potato.

  2. Canadian Slang A small bottle of liquor, shaped to fit in a pocket.

  3. also Mickey Slang A Mickey Finn.


[Perhaps from mick.]
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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Mickey (Finn)

  1. n.
    a drink containing chloral hydrate; a drink containing a fast-acting laxative. : He slipped her a Mickey Finn, but she switched glasses.
  2. n.
    chloral hydrate as put in drinks to knock people out. : There was a Mickey Finn in this drink, wasn't there?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Computing Dictionary

mickey unit, humour
The unit of resolution of mouse movement.
It has been suggested that the "disney" will become a benchmark unit for animation graphics performance.
[The Jargon File]
(1999-06-30)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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