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.
See also: Finn, mickey
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
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?
See also: Finn, mickey
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- mickey
- Mickey Finn
- Finn
- slip (one) a Mickey (Finn)
- slip a Mickey
- slip someone a Mickey
- slip someone a Mickey Finn
- put (one) under
- put under
- get someone's dander up, to