Mickey Finn

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)