Mike

nounnounproper nountop 1 000 in film dialogue

Canada/[mɐɪʔk]/
//maɪk//

A radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter M.

noun

1
A radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter M.

Etymology

Shortened from Michael.

noun

1
slangAn Irishman, especially a labourer.
[…] very hard work, a holy day — & the boys went on to […] & took the Mikes, so I cd get no helper but Marty — had to set up Punch & Judy show — & when I proposed to decorate tree heard it was still in the woods! However John Rourke appeared & dug up a small silver, to be planted again […]
Gott strafe the roll-call, hurrah for the 'Mikes,' / Hurrah for the rebel boys that organised the strikes, / For everywhere the roll was called their names they didn't know.

proper noun

1
A diminutive of the male given name Michael.
West Virginia Democratic Party Chair Mike Pushkin was not impressed with the executive orders, calling them a “troubling example” of executive overreach that “could harm us for generations.”
2
A diminutive of the female given name Michaela.

Forms

plural: Mikes

Miguel · A male given name from Portuguese and Spanish.Mika · A unisex given name. A female given name from Japanese.mike · A microphone.

Mike · A radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter M.

Mikey · A diminutive of the male given name Michael.Mikhail · A transliteration of the Russian male given name Михаи́л…Miki · A unisex given name. A diminutive of the male given name…

The neighbouring pages — Alphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.