Meaning of Mickey | Babel Free

Definitions

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.
2. A diminutive of the male given name Michael.
3. A Mickey Mouse cartoon.
   informal, rare
4. The noisy miner (Manorina melanocephala), a honeyeater endemic to eastern and southeastern Australia.
   Australia, informal
5. A diminutive of the female given names Michaela or Michelle.
6. Synonym of Mick.
   derogatory, offensive, slang
7. A Roman Catholic person.
   derogatory, offensive, slang
8. A young bull, especially one which is unbranded and running wild; a bullock.
   Australia, slang
9. An Irishman.
   US, derogatory, offensive, slang
10. The vulva.
    Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, rare, slang
11. Short for Mickey Finn (“an alcoholic or non-alcoholic drink deliberately doctored with a drug intended to quickly render the drinker unconscious”).
    abbreviation, alt-of, slang
12. 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.
    Canada, informal
13. A type of bombsight assisted by radar.
    historical, slang
14. The penis.
    Ireland, slang
15. Short for Mickey Bliss (“an act of urinating; a piss”).
    Cockney, UK, abbreviation, alt-of, slang
16. In take the mickey: a person's (false) pride, which is criticized through disparagement or ridicule; piss.
    UK, informal
17. Alternative letter-case form of Mickey (“an Irishman”).
    US, alt-of, derogatory, offensive, slang
18. A potato or sweet potato; specifically, one roasted over a fire outdoors.
    New-York-City, US, dated, slang
19. Alternative letter-case form of Mickey (“a Mickey Finn: an alcoholic drink deliberately doctored with a drug intended to quickly render the drinker unconscious”).
    US, alt-of, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“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 the number of mickeys per inch reported by the physical mouse; values which may be 100, 200, or 320 mickeys per inch depending on the mouse hardware. Default values are 8 mickeys/8 pixels horizontal and 16 mickeys/8 pixels vertical.”

“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.”

“Bronco horse pulling a ‘micky’ (young bull) up for branding.”

“Can't blame her for it, 'cause her mickey was probably throbbin' for it.”

“While you’re at the liquor store, get a mickey of rye.”

“"But," said the cook, "if we was in the city I'd take fifty cents of it purty, pronto and get myself a four-bit micky." / "A what?" I asked, mystified. / "A four-bit micky, a fifty-cent bottle of alcohol—Dr. Hall, white line," he translated in disgust. "If you're goin' west you better learn to talk west."”

“An American pint holds 16 ounces, a Canadian "mickey," 12 ounces of rye, or 13 ounces of Scotch.”

“He fell off the bike and injured his mickey.”

“Ill put on my best shift and drawers let him have a good eyeful out of that to make his micky stand for him […]”

“'Higgsy,' said the sergeant, 'they think I'm taking the mickey. Tell 'em.'”

“There was an old micky named Cassidy / who was famed for impromptu mendacity. / When asked did he lie / he replied: to reply / would be to impugn his veracity.”

“We roasted mickeys over a fire with two-foot sticks.”

“dippy runs down the street waving two potatoes. / dippy: Hey, guys, I swiped two maw [more] mickeys. Look!”

“I know where to get some sweet mickeys off the truck. We go roast them in the lot near Belmont. They have sweet mickeys in the South down there?”

“He was slipped a mickey.”

“National identity and ethnic origin mapped gang territory: ‘Little Italy’; ‘Little Sicily’; ‘Polish colony’; […] ‘Mickies’ (Irish). Each possessed demarcated districts within which gangs adopted neighbourhood names and tags […]”

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