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- noun Plural form of
mike . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
mike .
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Examples
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It was after that meeting that the number of "mikes," which is the magazine's star-system for rating bands, was increased on the Made Men review from three and a half to four and a half.
New York's Deborah Mitchell Jumps to Ed Kosner's Sunday Daily News 1999
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It was after that meeting that the number of "mikes," which is the magazine's star-system for rating bands, was increased on the Made Men review from three and a half to four and a half.
New York's Deborah Mitchell Jumps to Ed Kosner's Sunday Daily News 1999
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"mikes" and "speakers" was speedily applied to a jetmarine under Arv's supervision.
Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung Victor [pseud.] Appleton
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I viewed about a half-dozen people sitting at small work areas facing three walls wearing headphones and mikes making telephone calls.
ORGANIZATIONS UNDER SUSPICION CHECK YOUR CHARITY CAREFULLY before donating 2010
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As the planes approached, a voice crackled over the radio network warning everyone else to stand by: "Everyone stay off the net for the next 10 mikes minutes until the bird drops."
U.S.'s Afghan Headache: $400-a-Gallon Gasoline Nathan Hodge 2011
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At the time I was temping by day and performing open mikes at night.
Karen Shepard: Adventures in Small Space Karen Shepard 2011
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At the time I was temping by day and performing open mikes at night.
Karen Shepard: Adventures in Small Space Karen Shepard 2011
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They all carried MP5s and wore small earpieces and throat mikes.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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The slim plots and the faculty members with the exception of a guest appearance by Gwyneth Paltrow have been dropped, leaving only the pupils to prance around on a cruciform stage, singing familiar pop songs and waving their cordless mikes like ice-cream cornets.
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He and his crew were adepts in the new recording technology — the shotgun mikes, the sparkling Nagra sound equipment, and the handheld, quick-load Eclair NPR cameras that would effect the McLuhan-esque transmutation of Woodstock into Woodstock.
Woodstock Nation 2009
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