

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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