mickeynoun
uk/ˈmɪk.i/us/ˈmɪk.i/mickey noun (MAKE FUN)
take the mickey/mick (out of someone) UK informal
to laugh at someone and make them seem silly, in a funny or unkind way:
A group of other boys were taking the mickey out of him.
She's always taking the mick - she's got no respect for the managers at all.
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Mocking and taunting
- burlesque
- caricature
- deride
- derision
- derisive
- fun
- haze
- lampoon
- lay yourself open to ridicule idiom
- make a mockery of sth idiom
- make a monkey out of sb idiom
- mimic
- mock
- mockery
- mocking
- sardonic
- scoff
- send
- send sb/sth up
- send-up
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mickey noun (DRUG)
[ C ] also Mickey Finn slang a drug added to a drink, especially an alcoholic drink, in order to make the person who drinks it unconscious:
He must have slipped his wife a mickey.
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Specific types of drug
- amyl nitrite
- antiretroviral
- blunt
- cisplatin
- coke
- corticosteroid
- designer drug
- dope
- downer
- hash
- junk
- marijuana
- methamphetamine
- mind-altering
- narcotic
- pep pill
- popper
- skunkweed
- stimulant
- weed
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