mickey

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪki/

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mickey (plural mickeys)

1. (chiefly Canada, informal) A small bottle of liquor, holding 375 ml or 13 oz., typically shaped to fit in one's pocket.

   While you're at the liquor store, can you pick up another mickey of rye?

2. (US, slang) A Mickey Finn; a beverage, usually alcoholic, that has been drugged.
3. (US, slang) American depression era term for a potato as in a "roasted mickey".

   We roasted mickeys over a fire with two foot sticks.

4. (chiefly Ireland, informal) The penis.

   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

5. (Cockney rhyming slang) piss, shortened and more commonly used form of Mickey Bliss.
6. (computing) The resolution of a mouse, used as a unit of length.

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

1. To secretly slip drugs somebody's drink.
   • 1951, The Scented Flesh, page 46:

     Sam said he hadn't mickeyed me.

   • 1994, Dana Stabenow, A Cold-Blooded Business, →ISBN, page 202:

     You mickeyed my drink, didn't you?.

   • 2005, Wildwood Road, →ISBN, page 65:

     No question now, as far as she was concerned, that someone had mickeyed his beer.

• Texas mickey

• See take the mickey