mickey

See also: Mickey

English

mickey (plural mickeys)

(chiefly Canada, informal) A small bottle of liquor, holding 375 ml or 13 oz., typically shaped to fit in one's pocket. [from the 1910s]
While you're at the liquor store, can you pick up another mickey of rye?
(US, slang) A Mickey Finn; a beverage, usually alcoholic, that has been drugged. [from the 1930s]
I slipped him a mickey.
(US, slang, obsolete) An Irish person. [from the 1850s]
(US, slang, dated, Depression Era) A potato. [from the 1930s]
We roasted mickeys over a fire with two-foot sticks.
(chiefly Ireland, informal) The penis. [from the 1900s]
He fell off the bike and injured his mickey.
- 2004, “Take a Toast”, in The Love Never Dies, performed by Paperboy et al.:
  Five Fingers rapped around my mickey, being /ke/[??]
  Smokin on this dickey in the Fifty /se/[??], and shift
(Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, informal) The vagina. [from the early 1900s]
(Australia, informal) A well-known honeyeater, the Noisy Miner, Manorina melanocephala, of eastern Australia. [from the 1910s]
(rural Australia, informal) A young bull, especially one that is unbranded and running wild. [from the 1860s]
(Cockney rhyming slang) piss, shortened and more commonly used form of Mickey Bliss.
(computing) The resolution of a mouse: the smallest measurable distance it can move the cursor, used as a unit of length.

mickey (third-person singular simple present mickeys, present participle mickeying, simple past and past participle mickeyed)