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mikes

mikes is the plural of mike.

mikes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of mike.

Meaning of mike

Noun (1)

mike (plural mikes)

  1. (informal) A microphone.
    • "Then I say to the recording, for the record," I barked, right into the mike, […]1970, Theodore Sturgeon and Edward H. Waldo, "The Pod in the Barrier", in A Touch of Strange, Ayer Publishing, →ISBN, page 28

Noun (2)

mike (plural mikes)

  1. (slang) A minute.
    • We'll be there in one zero mikes [i.e. ten minutes].

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Proper noun capitalized: Mikes

Mikes

  1. (plural) plural of Mike

Phrases with mikes

Questions about mikes

What is mikes the plural of?
Mikes is the plural of mike.
What part of speech is mikes?
Mikes is a proper noun.

Words near mikes in the dictionary

  1. miked
  2. miked up
  3. Mikel
  4. Mikell
  5. Mikells
  6. mikes
  7. mikes up
  8. Mikesell
  9. Mikesells
  10. mikeside
  11. Mikeska

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mikes (page history and authors); Mikes (page history and authors); mike (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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