Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal A roasted potato.
- n. Canadian Slang A small bottle of liquor, shaped to fit in a pocket.
- n. Slang A Mickey Finn.
- idiom. take the mickey out of Chiefly British To tease or mock (someone).
Wiktionary
- n. informal A small bottle of liquor, holding 375 ml or 13 oz., typically shaped to fit in one's pocket.
- n. slang A Mickey Finn; a beverage, usually alcoholic, that has been drugged.
- n. slang American depression era term for a potato as in a "roasted mickey".
- n. Cockney rhyming slang piss, shortened and more commonly used form of Mickey Bliss.
Etymologies
- Perhaps from mick. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I think "mickey" is New Zealander for "syringe filled with homeless junky vomit and yoohoo”
“Without ACORN busing in mickey mouse and registering dead people to vote the democrats will have a very tough time in 2010.”
“Without ACORN busing in mickey mouse and registering dead people to vote the democrats will have a very tough time in 2010”
“One mickey is equal to the smallest detectable amount that a computer mouse can move.”
“Some of my cronies complain about felt recoil from my .35 Whelen when I slip them a "mickey" of a 250 grain bullet.”
“My four year old was looking at these with me - and she did not say "mickey" once!”
“I looked at maps of their operations in Arizona and Carlsbad online and they look kind of mickey mouse.”
“Sometimes we were lucky enough to get a "mickey" (a fire roasted potato) for everyone of the "gang".”
“I also think that Morrison was only able to get away with the title because Americans do not realise that "mickey" is a slang term for a man's instrument.”
“In the TV commercial they do show mom making fried eggs in some kind of mickey mold, but no word if that is included with the eggs.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mickey’.
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•Open List: Songboys
Inspired by gangerh's extremely addictive list songbirds, this is the same type list, but for male names. Same rules apply:
Names of boys in song titles. Not in the lyrics, just in the title...jack, jesse, jakey, john, arthur, nick, donald, bill, billy, gideon, riley, charlie and 95 more...
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EN - xenophobic terms
Alle Menschen werden Brüder - sooner or later? Derogatory terms for anybody different.
abe, anchor baby, ann, ape, apple, asian nigger, aunt jemima , aunt jane, aunt mary, aunt sally, banana, beaner and 315 more...
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birds
birds with singular names from
at least 9 English dictionariesaasvogel, aberdevine, accentor, accipiter, aepyornis, agami, albatross, alcatras, alcid, alcidine, amadavat, amokura and 1056 more...
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Scrabble Names
Given names that were acceptable for play the last time I checked the OWL.
kris, ray, barb, morris, kat, mark, maria, erica, marge, mason, hunter, hazel and 168 more...
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O Canada
Words known to Canadians. These may not be understood by other North Americans, eh?
zamboni, poutine, touque, zed, inukshuk, noseeum, timbits, Alberta clipper, beer parlour, bonspiel, CANDU, chesterfield and 35 more...
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Canadianisms
Canuck, timbit, Timbit, inukshuk, Canadianism, spiked, hyderize, canuckistan, Canuckistan, hoser, double double, Triumf and 364 more...
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Time for a new list!
abrupt, erupt, rupture, sync, appropinquity, heterochromia, homochromatic, monochromatic, willy nilly, nitty gritty, kowtow, wonton and 455 more...
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Names of People/Animals Real/Fiction ...
dickensian, wagnerian, daliesque, ghandian, kafkaesque, faulknerian, jungian, freudian, elizabethan, charlemagne, shakespearian, chekovian and 467 more...
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The Measure of Man
Unusual, arcane, or obscure units of measure
cable, cabot, bushel, cade, caliper, callipic cycle, metonic cycle, cunit, air watt, ale gallon, allergy unit, amber and 228 more...
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Bottle Collection
I have a sizable collection of fiddle- and banjo-shaped bottles. Some quite old, others not so old.
standard, saltmouth, rehoboam, pill bottle, tregnum, methuselah, thermos, Rehoboam, Marie Jeanne, surahi, junk-bottle, longneck and 95 more...
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Olde Fashyned Slang
word, cracking, blotto, ankle, dewdropper, applesauce, bee's knees, bird, breezer, bubs, bum's rush, cake-eater and 36 more...
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frivolous units of measurement
gleaned from the interweb
machturtle, picoboo, won ton, octopuss, gigolo, millihelen, millipicture, ivy league, fig newton, eskimo pi, angstrom, mole and 52 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for mickey.
sionnach a unit used in computer science in programming mice and similar input devices. One mickey is the length of the smallest detectable movement of the mouse. This depends on the equipment. Typical values are in the range 1/200 to 1/300 inch or roughly 0.1 millimeter. Obviously, the name comes from the Disney cartoon character Mickey Mouse. Jul 28, 2008
chained_bear And let's not forget that fine classic, the Mickey Mouse Club March. Feb 10, 2008
treeseed Mickey, Toni Basil, 1982 Feb 9, 2008