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Plural of hickey

regular plural

The plural of hickey is hickeys.

Forms of hickey

Singularhickey /ˈhɪk.i/
Pluralhickeys
Countablecountable

Hickeys in a sentence

  • When it comes to hickeys, the best I can tell you is that a lot of girls cover them with makeup or a turtleneck shirt.2005, William Cane, The Art of Kissing, 2nd edition, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN, page 128
  • The hickeys (serifs) on each letter tend to push our eye toward the next letter.2018, Paul W. Ross, Revival: The Handbook of Software for Engineers and Scientists
  • All I had to remember Claudia by was an earring she had dropped on my floor and a neckful of embarrassing hickeys.2011, Poe Ballantine, 501 Minutes to Christ: Personal Essays, page 47. From the entry neckful

Meaning of hickey

  1. noun A bruise-like mark made during petting by pressing the mouth to the skin on one’s partner’s body and sucking.
  2. noun A similar mark made by the pressure of a musical instrument such as a violin or viola against the neck.
  3. noun A pimple.

Full definition of hickey

Questions about the plural of hickey

What is the plural of hickey?
The plural of hickey is hickeys.
Is hickey countable?
Hickey is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hickey (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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