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Gadget: Var.
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hickie
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Word definitions for hickie in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"love bite; mark on skin made by biting or sucking during foreplay or sex," 1934; earlier "pimple, skin lesion" (c.1915); perhaps a sense extension and spelling variation from earlier word meaning "small gadget, device; any unspecified object" (1909, see ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
hickey \hick"ey\, hickie \hick"ie\n. (Elec.) A device used to adapt a lighting fixture for mounting in an outlet box, or on a pipe. A red mark on the skin, caused by a passionate, sucking kiss at that location. [slang] a doohickey . [informal]
Usage examples of hickie.
Before his fall he had despatched his staff officer, Major Hickie, to hurry up men from the rear.