mickey-finnv.
/ˌmɪkɪˈfɪn/, U.S. /ˌmɪkiˈfɪn/ slang (originally U.S.).
1. transitive. To drug or stupefy (a person) with a Mickey Finn.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > make drunk (of drink)
tox1637
intoxicate1687
to strike up into the head1711
to go to a person's head1808
mount1884
mickey-finn1933
mickey1946
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [verb (transitive)] > make drunk > make very or insensibly drunk
to drink (also put, see, etc.) someone under the tablea1636
locus1829
to sew up1829
to drink under the table1897
mickey-finn1957
1928 Variety 13 Jan. 55/2 Mickeyfinning isn't describable, but it's easily worked... Mickeyfinning has been behind some of the nite club liquor trouble, with the victims so sore they don't care what their revenge might bring.]
1933 Brevities (N.Y.) 17 Apr. 3/1 Mildred Hunt, the canary, was Mickey Finned the other nite.
1934 Cosmopolitan Apr. 131/1 She had been mickey-finned.
1957 P. Frank Seven Days to Never iv. 118 This was no ordinary hangover... He had been expertly mickey-finned.
1966 R. W. Taylor Doomsday Square (1967) xiii. 144 I Mickey-Finned him with my little pressure syringe. Let him sleep.
1998 Daily News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 2 Aug. 1 We sleep like we've been Mickey Finned.
2. transitive. To adulterate (a drink) with a Mickey Finn.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > make intoxicating [verb (intransitive)] > add drugs
mickey-finn1971
the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > make intoxicating [verb (transitive)] > add drugs
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1971 ‘C. Franklin’ Home Secretary Affair vii. 99 Two men..had mickey-finned his drink.
1998 Jrnl. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 6 Apr. 42 Is it not reasonable to think that an operation as ruthlessly organised as this would not be beyond ‘Mickey Finning’ their drinks?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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