a Mickey Finn
a Mickey Finn
A drug that is used to incapacitate someone or render them unconscious, most often put in someone's drink without them knowing. Please be careful—it's scarily easy for someone to slip you a Mickey Finn at big parties like that. The victim of the robbery stated that the suspect had put a Mickey Finn in his drink while they were at the bar. I don't remember last night at all, so I have no clue how I ended up in the bank vault. Did someone slip me a Mickey Finn or something?
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Mickey (Finn)
1. n. a drink containing chloral hydrate; a drink containing a fast-acting laxative. He slipped her a Mickey Finn, but she switched glasses.
2. n. chloral hydrate as put in drinks to knock people out. There was a Mickey Finn in this drink, wasn’t there?
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References in periodicals archive
Apparently the Islamist movement believes the Israeli intelligence service is to "corrupt the young" by slipping them
a Mickey Finn in the form of chewing gum.
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