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take the mick

take the mick is the alternative form of take the mickey.

Meaning of take the mickey

Verb

take the mickey (third-person singular simple present takes the mickey, present participle taking the mickey, simple past took the mickey, past participle taken the mickey)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, idiomatic, intransitive, slang) To ridicule or mock someone; to make fun of someone.
    • Are you takin’ the mickey? You’ll get yer ’ead bashed in.

Forms of take the mick

third-person singular presenttakes the mick
present participletaking the mick
pasttook the mick
past participletaken the mick

Questions about take the mick

What is take the mick the alternative form of?
Take the mick is the alternative form of take the mickey.

Words near take the mick in the dictionary

  1. take the long view
  2. take the mask off
  3. take the matter into one's own hands
  4. take the meaning
  5. take the Michael
  6. take the mick
  7. take the mickey
  8. take the micky
  9. take the offensive
  10. take the pee
  11. take the piss

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Adapted from Wiktionary: take the mick (page history and authors); take the mickey (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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