Definitions for Mikes

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Mikes mike

Spelling: [mahyk]

IPA: /maɪk/

Mikes is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in Mikes (eikms).

Definitions for Mikes

noun

1. Also, mic. Informal. microphone.
2. a forklike support for a light cannon on a sailing ship.
3. loafing; idling.
4. micrometer1 (def 2).
5. a male given name, form of Michael.
6. (lowercase) a word used in communications to represent the letter M.
7. Katherine (Kathleen Beauchamp Murry) 1888–1923, English short-story writer.
8. Michael Joseph ("Mike") 1903–2001, U.S. politician: senator 1953–77.
9. Richard, 1857–1907, U.S. actor, born in Germany.
10. Mount, a mountain in N Vermont: highest peak of the Green Mountains, 4393 feet (1339 meters).
11. a city in W Nottinghamshire, in central England.
12. a city in N Ohio.
13. a town in N Connecticut.
14. a town in SE Massachusetts.
15. Helmut (Heinrich Waldemar) [hel-moo t hahyn-rik vahl-duh-mahr;; German hel-moot hahyn-rikh vahl-duh-mahr] /ˈhɛl mʊt ˈhaɪn rɪk ˈvɑl dəˌmɑr;; German ˈhɛl mut ˈhaɪn rɪx ˈvɑl dəˌmɑr/ (Show IPA), born 1918, West German political leader: chancellor 1974–82.
16. Michael Jack ("Mike") born 1949, U.S. baseball player.
17. Michael Gerald ("Mike"; "Iron Mike") born 1966, U.S. boxer.

Idioms

1. drop the mike, Informal. mic (def 2).

verb (used with object)

1. Informal. to supply or amplify with one or more microphones; attach a microphone to:
2. to measure with a micrometer.

verb (used without object)

1. Informal. to use or position a microphone:
2. to loaf.

Origin of Mikes

First recorded in 1925-30; by shortening and respelling

Examples for Mikes

And now, similarly, former Arkansas governor mike Huckabee: "Bend over and take it like a prisoner!"

May we see the horses, mike—are they having their lie-down, or anything?

"Miss Porter'll tell ye about this wan," said mike, diplomatically.

They visited all the other stalls, eight of them, and listened to mike's eulogies on the inmates.

He was mike Gaynor, a trainer, and more than once Porter had stood his friend.

And similar shards of enthusiasm-killing kryptonite are lodged in John Kasich, mike Pence and Ted Cruz.

On mike's face was a map of disaster; the disaster might be trivial or great.

Like mike Tyson says, you have a great fight plan until you come out and take the first punch.

On the Democratic side, many expect former Rep. mike McMahon to make another run at the seat.

Democrats would be mistaken to underestimate mike Huckabee, perhaps the strongest Republican presidential contender.