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mickeying

mickeying is the present participle and gerund of mickey.

Meaning of mickey

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) Sometimes followed by up: short for mickey-finn (“to drug (someone) with a Mickey Finn (“an alcoholic or non-alcoholic drink deliberately doctored with a drug intended to quickly render the drinker unconscious”); to secretly put a drug into (someone's drink) to render them unconscious”).
    • Sam said he hadn't mickeyed me. That meant that he had either prepared a mickey at someone else's order, without knowing for whom it was intended, or he had seen someone else do the concocting.1951, Robert O. Saber, The Scented Flesh (A Handi-book Mystery; 124), Kingston, N.Y.: Quinn Publishing, →OCLC, page 46

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Questions about mickeying

What is mickeying the present participle and gerund of?
Mickeying is the present participle and gerund of mickey.

Words near mickeying in the dictionary

  1. mickey-taken
  2. mickey-takes
  3. mickey-taking
  4. mickey-took
  5. mickeyed
  6. mickeying
  7. Mickeymania
  8. mickeys
  9. Mickeysoft
  10. Micki
  11. Mickie

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