Crossword clues for hickie
hickie
The Collaborative International Dictionary
hickie
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]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hickie
"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 doohickey, still used in this sense).
Usage examples of "hickie".
Before his fall he had despatched his staff officer, Major Hickie, to hurry up men from the rear.