Hickey

Quick meaning: Hickey is a noun meaning (originally US, slang) A bruise-like mark made during petting by pressing the mouth to the skin on one’s partner’s body and sucking.

Meaning

(originally US, slang) A bruise-like mark made during petting by pressing the mouth to the skin on one’s partner’s body and sucking.

More Meanings

1. A similar mark made by the pressure of a musical instrument such as a violin or viola against the neck.
2. (US, dialect) A pimple.
3. (informal, slang) An object whose name is unknown or cannot be recalled.
4. (printing, informal) A serif or other ornamentation on type.
5. Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
6. A tool for making smooth, semicircular bends in conduit and pipe.
7. (printing) A printing defect caused by foreign matter on the printing surface resulting in a ring where the ink is missing, appearing as a spot of ink surrounded by a halo, or as an unprinted spot within a solid printed area.

Example Sentences

take a hickey

Farmer Jones took a hickey on his soybean crop when the flood washed the seeds away.

But Louis Vuitton bras all over your breasts / Got me wanting to put hickeys all over your chest

No, a pimple is not a small pimp. It is what they call a hickey in the country. Look up papules.

Word Forms

• hickeys
• hicky
• hickie

Synonyms for hickey

Depending on context, synonyms include knot, widget, gizmo, thingy, gimmick, thingie.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hick, harden, hicky, hicket, hunk, hiccough.

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