hickey
/ˈhɪki
/noun (plural hickeys)
1North American informal A gadget.
2North American informal A love bite or pimple.I knew that in the morning I would have to use cover-up on the new hickeys that he had marked me with....
- Well you were way too busy making out with Andrew - I'm guessing that hickey is from him.
- The next morning, I came to life smelling of smoke, with a twisted ankle, a lot less money, and this really, really big hickey.
3A blemish in printing, especially an area in a solid that has not been inked.
Origin
Early 20th century: of unknown origin.
Rhymes
- mediascape
- media-shy
- mediaspeak
- media star
- mediastinal
- mediastinitis
- mediastino-pericarditis
- mediastinoscope
- mediastinoscopic
- mediastinoscopically
- mediastinoscopy
- mediastinotomy
- mediastinum
- mediastinum testis
- media student
- media studies
- mediate
- mediate auscultation
- mediate cause
- mediate inference
- mediate knowledge
- mediately
- mediateness
- mediate percussion
- mediation