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Subject: Re: Drinking Lingo?!?!
From: Kent Garber
Posted: Sun Jun 23. 2002, 19:20 UTC
Followup to: "Drinking Lingo?!?!"  by Sam  (Sun Jun 23. 2002, 18:27 UTC)
mickey 
  
SYLLABICATION: mickˇey                   PRONUNCIATION:   mk 
NOUN: Inflected forms: pl. mickˇeys
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.  
IDIOM: take the mickey out of Chiefly British To tease or mock (someone).  
ETYMOLOGY: Perhaps from mick.  
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Mickey Finn 
  
SYLLABICATION: Mickˇey Finn          PRONUNCIATION:   mk fn 
NOUN: Slang An alcoholic beverage that is surreptitiously altered to induce 
diarrhea or stupefy, render unconscious, or otherwise incapacitate the person 
who drinks it.  
ETYMOLOGY: Probably after a notorious Chicago bar shut down in 1903, allegedly 
because its customers were served spiked drinks and then robbed.


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