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mic up

mic up is the alternative spelling of mike up.

Meaning of mike up

Verb

mike up (third-person singular simple present mikes up, present participle miked up, simple past and past participle miked up)

  1. (informal, transitive) To fit a microphone and transmitter to (a person). Usually for television performers, or for police informers.
    • You will have to be miked up at least ten minutes before we go on air.

Forms of mic up

third-person singular presentmics up
present participlemicing up
past participlemiced up
pastmiced up
past participlemic'd up
pastmic'd up

Questions about mic up

What is mic up the alternative spelling of?
Mic up is the alternative spelling of mike up.

Words near mic up in the dictionary

  1. mic check
  2. mic checks
  3. mic drop
  4. mic drops
  5. mic fright
  6. mic up
  7. mic'd
  8. mic'd up
  9. mic'ed
  10. mic'ing
  11. mic-check

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mic up (page history and authors); mike up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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