The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word MICKEY
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More clues leading to the result MICKEY
- Intelligence services see note that’s taken from a dupe
- Doctored drink for mouse
- Mouse which will put you to sleep
- Mouse that may put you out?
- I'm back with last of tonic crucial for intoxicating drink
- Mouse thanks monarch for making fun of him, say
- Mark: “The obvious way into my house should not be taken”
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What does MICKEY mean?
MICKEY noun- A small bottle of liquor, holding 375 ml or 13 oz., typically shaped to fit in one's pocket.
- A Mickey Finn; a beverage, usually alcoholic, that has been drugged.
- American depression era term for a potato as in a "roasted mickey".
- The penis.
- The vagina.
- A well-known honeyeater, the Noisy Miner, Manorina melanocephala, of eastern Australia.
- (rural Australia) A young bull, especially one that is unbranded and running wild.
- Piss, shortened and more commonly used form of Mickey Bliss.
- The resolution of a mouse, used as a unit of length.
- To secretly slip drugs into somebody's drink.