Hickey
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English
Noun
Hickey (plural Hickeys)- (US, slang) A bruise-like mark made during petting by pressing the mouth to the skin on one’s partner’s body and sucking.
- Used by some speakers to refer to an object whose name is unknown or cannot be recalled.
- (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.
- Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
- A tool for making smooth, semicircular bends in conduit and pipe.
Synonyms
- (bruise-like mark): love bite, lovebite, knot
- (tool): conduit bender
- See also Thesaurus:thingy
Derived terms
Thesaurus
affair, article, artifact, birthmark, blackhead, bleb, blemish, blister, bulla, check, cicatrix, comedo, crack, crater, craze, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity, dingus, disfiguration, disfigurement, distortion, dofunny, dohickey, dojigger, dojiggy, domajig, domajigger, doodad, dowhacky, eppes, etwas, fault, flaw, flumadiddle, freckle, gadget, gigamaree, gimmick, gizmo, hemangioma, hootenanny, hootmalalie, jigger, keloid, kink, lentigo, material thing, milium, mole, needle scar, nevus, object, pimple, pit, pock, pockmark, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, pustule, quelque chose, rift, scab, scar, scratch, sebaceous cyst, something, split, strawberry mark, sty, thing, thingum, thingumabob, thingumadad, thingumadoodle, thingumajig, thingumajigger, thingumaree, thingummy, track, twist, verruca, vesicle, wale, warp, wart, weal, welt, wen, whatchy, whitehead, widget
Etymology
Unknown.
