slip (one) a Mickey (Finn)
slip (one) a Mickey (Finn)
To put a drug in someone's drink that will make them lose consciousness and incapacitate them; to serve someone a drink laced with such a drug. Please be careful—it's scarily easy for someone to slip you a Mickey at big parties like that. The victim of the robbery stated that the assailant had slipped him a Mickey Finn at the bar.
See also: mickey, slip
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
slip someone a Mickey
to secretly put a Mickey Finn in someone's alcoholic drink. (This drug either makes the victim ill or causes immediate diarrhea.) somebody slipped Barlowe a Mickey and sent him into action. For a ten-spot, the bartender slipped slim a Mickey.
See also: mickey, slip
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
slip someone a Mickey Finn
INFORMALIf someone slips someone else a Mickey Finn, they give them a drink containing a drug that makes them go to sleep. I went there once and was slipped a Mickey Finn.
See also: Finn, mickey, slip, someone
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.
slip someone a Mickey Finn
give someone a drugged or otherwise adulterated drink.Recorded from the 1920s, this expression is of unknown origin, but it is sometimes said to be the name of a notorious Chicago barkeeper ( c .1896–1906 ).
See also: Finn, mickey, slip, someone
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
slip someone a Mickey
tv. to secretly put a Mickey Finn in someone’s alcoholic drink. (This drug either makes the victim pass out or causes immediate diarrhea.) Somebody slipped Marlowe a Mickey and sent him into action.
See also: mickey, slip, someone
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- slip a Mickey
- slip someone a Mickey
- slip someone a Mickey Finn
- drink (oneself) to sleep
- drink (someone) under the table
- drink somebody under the table
- drink someone under the table
- drink under the table
- What are you drinking?
- What are you having?