Definitions for Hickey

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Hickey hick·ey

Spelling: [hik-ee]

IPA: /ˈhɪk i/

Hickey is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in Hickey (cehiky).

Definitions for Hickey

noun

1. Slang. a pimple. a reddish mark left on the skin by a passionate kiss.
2. any device or gadget whose name is not known or is momentarily forgotten.
3. Electricity. a fitting used to mount a lighting fixture in an outlet box or on a pipe or stud.
4. a tool used to bend tubes and pipes.

Origin of Hickey

1905-10; Americanism; of obscure origin; senses under def. 1 perhaps a separate word, though the development “device > defective device > defect, blemish, mark” is also possible; cf.

Examples for Hickey

Miss hickey: that I admire all that is admirable in you is but to say that I have a sense of the beautiful.

Your hickey in The Iceman Cometh has become legendary and most recently you played Jim Tyrone in A Moon for the Misbegotten.

The Reverend hickey has appealed strongly to my love of legend.

We raced after them just as a man named hickey ran from the bushes and joined them.

Dan was the first to leap from the car, followed quickly by hickey.

hickey was in the heavy middleweight class while he was still a bantam.

Father hickey had suffered the meed of his inhospitable conduct.

hickey crawled into the small opening, though he did not know where he was.

“We are already implementing our plan and are getting good early results,” hickey told a House oversight subcommittee July 18.

hickey's got us all skinned hollow when it comes to this game.