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单词 Mickey Finn
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Mickey Finn

/mɪkiˈfɪn /
noun informal
1An alcoholic drink that has been surreptitiously drugged so as to make the drinker unconscious.The latter mixed with an alcoholic drink is known as a Mickey Finn, used, in detective literature at least, to knock out the ‘goodies’....
  • In many cases, the girl has intentionally been fed a Mickey Finn and is physically powerless to prevent a gang-rape from unfolding.
  • Police say she went to his house, knocked him out with a Mickey Finn and, as he was falling asleep from the spiked cocktail, strangled him with a rope.
1.1A drug added to a drink so as to make the drinker unconscious: she slipped a Mickey Finn into his glass

Origin

1920s: of unknown origin; sometimes said to be the name of a notorious Chicago saloon keeper (circa1896–1906).

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