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Hickey   /hˈɪki/   Listen
noun
hickie, hickey  n.  
1.
(Elec.) A device used to adapt a lighting fixture for mounting in an outlet box, or on a pipe.
2.
A red mark on the skin, caused by a passionate, sucking kiss at that location. (slang)
3.
A doohickey. (informal)





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"Hickey" Quotes from Famous Books



... I want to hear about it. Wash your eyes, and we will get our horses and go over to see Mrs Hickey and her baby, and take her ...
— My Brilliant Career • Miles Franklin
... Governor Tryon and Mayor Matthews, of the city, were suspected of furthering the plot and furnishing the funds. Matthews was arrested at Flatbush by a party of officers under Colonel Varnum, but the evidence against him was insufficient. Among the soldiers implicated was Thomas Hickey, of Washington's guard, who was tried by court-martial, found guilty of sedition, mutiny, and correspondence with the enemy, and executed in the presence of the army on June 28th. Something of the feeling excited by the discovery of the ...
— The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn • Henry P. Johnston
... marshal cried. "Well, now we certainly must get him! If he's a horse thief, as well as a safe-blower we sure will get him! Scatter, boys! Be lively! Jack, I'll lend you a horse. Come on now. Jim Hickey, you lead one bunch over the Tuckerton trail, and I'll head another on the road to Rainbow Ridge. But most likely the fellow will take to the mountains and hide out for ...
— Jack of the Pony Express • Frank V. Webster
... had some money saved up, and what should he do with bits of it now and then but grubstake old Snowstorm Hickey, who'd been scratching mountainsides all his life and never found a thing and likely never would—a grouchy old hardshell with white hair and whiskers whirling about his head in such quantities that a body just naturally called him Snowstorm ...
— Somewhere in Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson


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