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mic

nounverbnouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈmaɪk//

A microfarad.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of mikeAlternative form of mike (“microphone”).

    Picture a mic, the stage is empty A beat like this might tempt me To pose, show my rings and my fat gold chain Grab the mic like I'm on Soul Train

Etymology

Clipping of microphone. Attested since 1961.

verb

  1. 1

    Variant of mikeAlternative form of mike.

    If we add the drum kit, we'll have to mic the orchestra.

    At 11:00 am, Doug mics up with me on the radio, and I advise him to go back to camp to get a quad, that we have a monster down.

    Imagine playing a venue the size of an aircraft hangar without your tiny amps miced up through the PA!

    This lacks the gut-punch of miced-up bass but hopefully the player can rise to the challenge and give his or her take extra energy to make up for it.

noun

  1. 1

    A microfarad.

Etymology

Clipping of microfarad.

Forms

plural
mics
past tense
miced, mic'd, mic'ed
past participle
miced, mic'd, mic'ed
present participle
micing, mic'ing
third person singular
mics, mic's
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).