mike
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Is mike a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (informal) A microphone.Examples: "1970, Theodore Sturgeon and Edward H. Waldo, "The Pod in the Barrier", in A Touch of Strange, Ayer Publishing, →ISBN, page 28, "Then I say to the recording, for the record," I barked, right into the mike, […]"; "1981, John Swaigen, How to Fight for What’s Right: The Guide to Public Interest Law, James Lorimer & Company, →ISBN, pages 118–119, Obviously, one must watch what one says in the vicinity of a microphone. More than one person has made a “private” statement in the presence of an open mike."; "2007, John Sellers, Perfect from Now On: How Indie Rock Saved My Life, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 85, When the haggard bartender informed us that there would be an open-mike event later in the evening, I got my first sense that not everyone in Manchester cared about the music the city has produced."informal
noun (English)
1. (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Mike from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.alt-of
2. (military, slang) A minute.Examples: "We'll be there in one zero mikes [i.e. ten minutes]."slang
noun (English)
1. (slang) Clipping of microgram.Examples: "The beginner's dose may be anywhere from 100 to 250 mikes — micrograms, or millionths of a gram. Most hardened heads need 600 to 800 mikes, and some as many as 1,400 mikes, before they experience any sensation of getting off."abbreviationalt-ofclippingslang
noun (English)
1. (World War II, joint US/RAF) A radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter M.
noun (English)
1. (slang) An Irishman, especially a labourer.Examples: "[…] very hard work, a holy day — & the boys went on to […] & took the Mikes, so I cd get no helper but Marty — had to set up Punch & Judy show — & when I proposed to decorate tree heard it was still in the woods! However John Rourke appeared & dug up a small silver, to be planted again […]"; "Gott strafe the roll-call, hurrah for the 'Mikes,' / Hurrah for the rebel boys that organised the strikes, / For everywhere the roll was called their names they didn't know."Synonyms: mickslang
name (English)
1. (countable) A diminutive of the male given name Michael.Examples: "West Virginia Democratic Party Chair Mike Pushkin was not impressed with the executive orders, calling them a “troubling example” of executive overreach that “could harm us for generations.”"countable
2. (countable) A diminutive of the female given name Michaela.countable
Definition source: Wiktionary