1876 Austral. Town & Country Jrnl. 9 Dec. 942/2 The wary and still more dangerously sudden ‘Michie’, a two-year-old-bull (so-called after an eminent Australian barrister famous for bringing his ‘charges’ to a successful issue).

1881 A. C. Grant Bush-life in Queensland I. xvi. 227 There are three or four Mickies and wild heifers.

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer II. xviii. 98 The wary..‘Micky’, a two-year-old bull.

1926 M. Forrest Hibiscus Heart 124 The cattle slayers had gone their way, with..the mob of ‘mickies’ they intended..to brand.

1968 W. Gill Petermann Journey 43 Some protesting calves were being drafted from their anxious mothers. I got there in time to see Tum scruff a two months old ‘mickey’, throw it, then hold it.

1987 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 6 Mar. (Great Outdoors Suppl.) 7/4 Cattle dogs were employed, and young bulls or ‘mickeys’ thrown by the tail for earmarking and dehorning.

1911 J. A. Leach Austral. Bird Bk. 173 Noisy Miner, Garrulous Honeyeater, Snake-Bird, Cherry-eater, Soldier, Micky, Squeaker, Myzantha garrula.

1931 N. W. Cayley What Bird is That? 81 Noisy Miner Myzantha melanocephala... Also called..Soldier-bird, Micky, and Squeaker. In small parties, frequenting open forest country and partly cleared lands.

1971 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 24 July 12/8 Mickeys, or Soldier Birds, or Noisy Miners, are great little fighters and battle the hawks..quite fearlessly.

1981 M. Sharland Tracks of Morning 74 Half a dozen ‘mickeys’..preening on a branch a few feet below.

1914 L. E. Jackson & C. R. Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang 58 Micky, current amongst bottle drinkers. A corruption of Michael..a flask of liquor.

1926 J. Black You can't Win vi. 66 A four-bit micky, a fifty-cent bottle of alcohol.

1950 H. Sutton Footloose in Canada 5 An American pint holds 16 ounces, a Canadian ‘mickey’, 12 ounces of rye, or 13 ounces of Scotch.

1971 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 21 Mar. 16/2 Mark, the public nuisance that he was, bought his liquor in mickeys that he hid in the woodpile around the cannery.

1988 L. Gough Death on No. 8 Hook iv. 27 He fumbled..for the mickey of Cutty Sark..unscrewed the metal cap and took a stiff drink.

1936 S. Kingsley Dead End iii. 122 Hey, guys, I swiped two maw mickeys. Look!

1960 R. Barber Night they raided Minsky's 2 A bunch of kids had built a fire to roast some mickies.

1988 D. De Lillo Libra 8 I know where to get some sweet mickeys off the truck. We go roast them in the lot near Belmont.

1948 A. Baron From City, from Plough vi. 49 ‘Higgsy,’ said the sergeant, ‘they think I'm taking the mickey. Tell 'em.’

1952 ‘J. Henry’ Who lie in Gaol iv. 66 She's a terror. I expect she'll try and take the mickey out of you all right. Don't you stand for nothin'.

1957 L. P. Hartley Hireling 134 He had no great regard for Constance, except in so far as she sometimes took the mickey out of Hughie.

1958 Observer 28 Dec. 3/1 ‘Tonight’ is not only a tough and irreverent programme, but glib and smart and anxious to take the mickey.

1960 E. W. Hildick Jim Starling & Colonel ix. 76 The servers must have thought that no boy would dare to take the mickey in such circumstances.

1971 B. W. Aldiss Soldier Erect 101 Geordie looked anxiously at me, in case I thought he was taking the micky too hard.

1991 Sunday Sun (Brisbane) 3 Feb. 6/5 I don't think there is any subject that is too serious to take the micky out of.

1936 N. Coward To-night at 8.30 II. 49 We'll miss the Mickey.

1944 News (San Francisco) 28 Nov. 7/3 ‘Mickey’, a sensational radar device which ‘sees’ through darkness, clouds and artificial smoke.

1944 Time 11 Dec. 24 Mickey was a British invention, freely given to the U.S. U.S. scientists later developed an improved model. It was first used by U.S. bombers just over a year ago; today every fleet of heavy bombers over Europe presumably is or will be equipped with it, on day or night raids.

1945 News (San Francisco) 15 Aug. 10 (advt.) Mickey radar sends out super-high frequency radio waves which bounce back from solid targets and are picked up by the radar receiver and transformed into a radar picture on a screen like the one in a home television receiver.

1945 Nature 15 Sept. 320/2 The aids to the bombing of invisible targets which were variously called ‘H₂S’, the ‘gen-box’, ‘Mickey’ and the ‘Magic Eye’.

1955 M. Reifer Dict. New Words 131/2 Mickey, a radar-type bomb-sight that permits air navigation in zero visibility and pinpoint strategic bombing despite overcast or darkness. Named for the cartoon figure, Mickey Mouse, created by Walt Disney.

1938 A. J. Liebling Back where I came From 88 Mickeys..act so drastically that one may kill a drunk with a weak heart.

1942 L. Hart Off Record in D. Hart & R. Kimball Compl. Lyrics L. Hart (1976) 237/3 I sit up in my study writing gags for Mr. Ickes And insults for the gentlemen who'd love to slip him mickeys.

1956 Jrnl. Educ. Sociol. 29 321 In other words, we, as conscientious teachers, do not wish to slip ideological ‘mickies’ to our students.

1962 E. Lucia Klondike Kate iv. 107 However, the dames seldom rolled the miners or slipped them a Mickey.

1994 Rolling Stone 19 May 72/2 Law-enforcement officials..have developed a sophisticated array of nonlethal weapons; like slipping a guy a Mickey, these weapons incapacitate their targets, but not forever.

1946 K. Patchen in New Direct. 9 196 All they'd had to do was..mickey the bottle up real nice.

1968 W. Crawford Gresham's War 132 She's probably rich off the guys she's rolled and mickeyed in here.

1972 M. Pugh Murmur of Mutiny xix. 144 I'd a couple or so in the sergeants' mess... They mustaf been mickied.

1976 Washington Post 19 Apr. d4/1 Today, when he came out to warm up, he felt like his Gatorade had been mickeyed.

1995 G. Foreman & J. Engel By George 115 I believed my water may have been mickeyed.