▪ I. mick2 Austral. slang.
(mɪk)
[Origin unknown.]
The head, or sometimes the reverse, of a penny (see also quot. 1919).
| 1919 W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 33 Mick, (1) the Queen's head on a coin... (2) a queen in a pack of cards. 1938 J. Robertson With Cameliers in Palestine xx. 198 ‘A pair of Micks’, which means that the offerings [in the game of two-up] are not accepted. 1941 Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 46 Mick, the ‘head’ of a penny. 1953 T. A. G. Hungerford Riverslake 126 ‘Ten bob he tails 'em!’ he intoned,..‘I got ten bob to say he tails 'em—ten bob the micks!’ |
▪ II. mick3 slang.
(mɪk)
Also mickey, micky.
[var. of mike n.3 reinterpreted as a proper name.]
to do a mick, etc., to go away, to clear off (see mike n.3).
| 1937 Partridge Dict. Slang 519/1 Mick, do a [equated with do a mike]. 1959 I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. x. 192 Sending away,..do a mickey. 1961 S. Chaplin Day of Sardine xi. 225, I laid the ring on the notepaper and did a mickey as soon as I heard the front doorbell go. |
▪ III. mick4 slang.
(mɪk)
[Origin unknown.]
A seaman's hammock.
| 1929 Papers Mich. Acad. Sci., Arts & Lett. X. 308/1 Mick, an abridgement of ‘face like a scrubbed hammock’. 1946 J. Irving Royal Navalese 115 Mick, hammock. 1961 Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. 1183/1 Mick,..a seaman's hammock. |
▪ IV. mick5 dial.
(mɪk)
Also mickey, micky.
[Origin unknown.]
A pigeon.
| 1940 N. & Q. 3 Aug. 79/1 Mick was the usual word for a pigeon, especially the domesticated kind [in Cheshire]. 1965 Jrnl. Lancs. Dial. Soc. Jan. 7 Woodpigeon..Mick, Micky: Southport, Liverpool. 1966 F. Shaw et al. Lern Yerself Scouse 23 De mickeys are lettin on de roof, the pigeons are alighting on the roof. 1966 ‘L. Lane’ ABZ of Scouse 68 Mickey-snatcher, a person who steals municipal pigeons. |