mickeys

Noun

mickey (plural mickeys)

1. The smallest distance that a computer mouse can move a cursor on a screen, which is used to measure the device's resolution or sensitivity.
   • The Mmove_ratio method controls the ratio of physical mouse movement to screen cursor movement with the x- and y-axis arguments (xsize and ysize) expressed as the number of mickeys (units of mouse motion) required to cover eight pixels on the screen. […] [T]he appropriate values are dependent on...1990 July, Ben Ezzell, “An Object-oriented Mouse”, in Turbo C++ Programming: An Object Oriented Approach, Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 97
2. (Australia, informal) The noisy miner (Manorina melanocephala), a honeyeater endemic to eastern and southeastern Australia.
3. (Australia, slang) A young bull, especially one which is unbranded and running wild; a bullock.
   • The cattle slayers had gone their way, with their smoking rifles and the mob of "mickies" they intended, somewhere in the fastnesses of the ranges, to brand and make legally, as far as the letter of the law went, their own.[1927], M[abel] Forrest, chapter 12, in Hibiscus Heart, London: Hutchinson & Co., →OCLC, page 124
4. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, rare, slang) The vulva.
   • Can't blame her for it, 'cause her mickey was probably throbbin' for it.1975, Don [J.] Townshend, chapter 26, in Virginity Stakes, Woollahra, Sydney, N.S.W.: Pan Books in association with Collins, published 1983, →ISBN, page 206
5. (Canada, informal) A small bottle of liquor, such as whiskey, usually holding 375 millilitres (13.2 imperial fluid ounces; 12.7 U.S. fluid ounces), typically shaped to fit in one's pocket.
   • While you’re at the liquor store, get a mickey of rye.
6. (Ireland, slang) The penis.
   • He fell off the bike and injured his mickey.

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