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mike noun- a microgram (1/1,000,000th of a gram) US
The unit of measure for LSD doses, even in the non-metric US. - — Joe David Brown (Editor), The Hippies, p. 219, 1967: “Glossary of hippie terms”
- “How many mikes?” Papa All wanted to know. “Ahh, I dunno. They’ll get ya off.” — Nicholas Von Hoffman, We Are The People Our Parents Warned Us Against, p. 26, 1967
- — Sidney Cohen, The Drug Dilemma, p. 130, 1969
- I had one woman that took four hundred mikes of LSD. — Los Angeles Free Press, p. 10, 14–20 August 1970
- She hung out with me while I was coming on when I had been dosed by what I think was something apporaching 3500 mikes[.] — Stephen Gaskin, Amazing Dope Tails, p. 115, 1980
- Crisis-level bummers are less likely to happen on low doses of acid–100 mikes or less–than on high doses of 150 mikes or more. — Cam Cloud, The Little Book of Acid, p. 22, 1999
- a microdot (of LSD)
- Here was some dude, not even a chemistry major, coming on to you with mikes, grams, bricks, kilos and hundredweights[.] — Robert Sabbag, A Way with the Spoon [The Howard Marks Book of Dope Stories], p. 351, 1998
- a microphone US, 1927
- Shortly after noon the two largest national broadcasting systems installed mikes on the main walk down near the front gates. — Chester Himes, Cast the First Stone, p. 145, 1952
- a minute US
From the military phonetic alphabet–“mike” for “m”, and “m” for “minute”. - Three is inbound from the Sierra Whiskey. Should be here in two zero mikes if they don’t hit any shit. — Platoon, 1986
- a person who secretly finances a licensed bookmaker AUSTRALIA
- — Ned Wallish, The Truth Dictionary of Racing Slang, p. 52, 1989
- a mercenary US, 1972
Prior to the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, mercenaries were disrespected, if not despised. Under President Bush, mercenaries became a respected and regular part of the American occupation of Iraq. - I saw the house and a group of eight giggling, wide-eyed Vietnamese mercenaries, Mikes, pointing at me and talking very excitedly. — Michael Herr, Dispatches, p. 229, 1977
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