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mike
1[ mahyk ]
verb (used with object)
- Informal. to supply or amplify with one or more microphones; attach a microphone to:
to mike a singer.
verb (used without object)
- Informal. to use or position a microphone:
to mike properly when recording a singer.
mike
2[ mahyk ]
noun
- a forklike support for a light cannon on a sailing ship.
mike
3[ mahyk ]
noun
- loafing; idling.
verb (used without object)
- to loaf.
mike
4[ mahyk ]
noun
verb (used with object)
- to measure with a micrometer.
Mike
5[ mahyk ]
noun
- a male given name, form of Michael.
- (lowercase) a word used in communications to represent the letter M.
mike
1/ maɪk /
noun
- informal.short for microphone See also mike up
Mike
2/ maɪk /
noun
- communications a code word for the letter m
Word History and Origins
Origin of mike1
Origin of mike2
Origin of mike3
Origin of mike4
Idioms and Phrases
- drop the mike, Informal. mic ( def 2 ).
Example Sentences
“We like Ike” was turned into Roy O. Disney’s hugely successful animated TV campaign commercial, “I Like Ike,” helping the guy good at the mike win in a landslide over Adlai Stevenson.
“Precise and circumspect, with an avuncular demeanor and an authoritative voice .... Summerall indulged his partner’s many appetites and asides, even when that meant being elbowed aside at the mike and in the limelight.”
With so many people talking at once, they bleed into each other’s mikes, creating headaches for him.
“I never go out and look to grab the mike or go in front of the TV camera. When I go to work everyday, I check my ego at the door.”
I wanted to just be center stage, mike stand, no bells and whistles, and just say to people, “This is why I’m still here. I can still strip it back.”
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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