mickey

noun

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. (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.”

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

4. (Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, rare, slang)The vulva.

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

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.”

   “"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.”

6. (Ireland, slang)The penis.

   “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 […]”

7. (Cockney, UK, abbreviation, alt-of, slang)Short for Mickey Bliss (“an act of urinating; a piss”).
8. (UK, informal)In take the mickey: a person's (false) pride, which is criticized through disparagement or ridicule; piss.

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

9. (US, alt-of, derogatory, offensive, slang)Alternative letter-case form of Mickey (“an Irishman”).

   “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.”

10. (New-York-City, US, dated, slang)A potato or sweet potato; specifically, one roasted over a fire outdoors.

    “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?”

11. (US, alt-of, slang)Alternative letter-case form of Mickey (“a Mickey Finn: an alcoholic drink deliberately doctored with a drug intended to quickly render the drinker unconscious”).

    “He was slipped a mickey.”

12. (informal, rare)A Mickey Mouse cartoon.
13. (derogatory, offensive, slang)Synonym of Mick.
14. (US, derogatory, offensive, slang)Synonym of Mick.

    “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 […]”

15. (abbreviation, alt-of, slang)Short for Mickey Finn (“an alcoholic or non-alcoholic drink deliberately doctored with a drug intended to quickly render the drinker unconscious”).
16. (historical, slang)A type of bombsight assisted by radar.

adj

1. (Australia, abbreviation, alt-of, informal)Short for Mickey Mouse (“excellent, grouse”).

verb

1. (transitive)Sometimes followed by up: short for mickey-finn (“to drug (someone) with a Mickey Finn (“an alcoholic or non-alcoholic drink deliberately doctored with a drug intended to quickly render the drinker unconscious”); to secretly put a drug into (someone's drink) to render them unconscious”).

   “Sam said he hadn't mickeyed me. That meant that he had either prepared a mickey at someone else's order, without knowing for whom it was intended, or he had seen someone else do the concocting.”

   “You mickeyed my drink, didn't you? […] You know why I don't drink. You know why I don't do dope. And you mickeyed my drink. You son of a bitch.”

   “No question now, as far as she was concerned, that someone had mickeyed his beer.”

name

1. A diminutive of the male given name Michael.
2. A diminutive of the female given names Michaela or Michelle.