Definitions for hickeys

hickeys hick·ey

Spelling: [hik-ee]
IPA: /ˈhɪk i/

Hickeys is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 110 anagrams from letters in hickeys (cehiksy).

Definitions for hickeys

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 hickeys

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 hickeys

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Word Value for hickeys
Scrable

18

Words with friends

17

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