Mickey Finn (redirected from Knockout Drop Effect)

Mick·ey Finn  (mk fn)

n. Slang

An alcoholic beverage that is surreptitiously altered to induce diarrhea or stupefy, render unconscious, or otherwise incapacitate the person who drinks it.

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[Probably after a notorious Chicago bar shut down in 1903, allegedly because its customers were served spiked drinks and then robbed.]

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Mickey Finn

n

Slang

a.  a drink containing a drug to make the drinker unconscious, usually formed by the combination of chloral hydrate and alcohol. It can be poisonous

b.  the drug itself Often shortened to Mickey

[of unknown origin]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

Mickey Finn - slang term for knockout drops knockout drops - chloral hydrate in combination with alcohol; usually administered surreptitiously to make the drinker unconscious jargon, lingo, patois, argot, vernacular, slang, cant - a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo"

Translations

Mickey Finn

n (Brit inf) → Betäubungsmittel nt; (= drink) → präparierter Drink; they slipped him a Mickey Finn → sie haben ihm was in den Drink getan (inf)