Usually means: Bruise caused by kissing suction.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. hickey: Merriam-Webster
  2. hickey: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hickey: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hickey: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hickey: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hickey, hickey: Wordnik
  7. hickey: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Hickey, hickey: Wiktionary
  9. hickey: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hickey: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hickey: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. hickey: Dictionary.com
  13. Hickey (band), Hickey (disambiguation), Hickey (film), Hickey: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. hickey: Rhymezone
  15. Hickey: American-Britih Dictionary
  16. hickey: FreeDictionary.org
  17. hickey: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Hickey: The Word Detective
  19. hickey: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. hickey: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. hickey: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hickey: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. hickey, hickey, hickey, hickey, hickey: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. hickey: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. hickey: ESL Slang page

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noun:  (originally US, slang) A bruise-like mark made during petting by pressing the mouth to the skin on one’s partner’s body and sucking.
noun:  A similar mark made by the pressure of a musical instrument such as a violin or viola against the neck.
noun:  (informal, slang) An object whose name is unknown or cannot be recalled.
noun:  (printing) A printing defect caused by foreign matter on the printing surface resulting in a ring where the ink is missing, appearing as a spot of ink surrounded by a halo, or as an unprinted spot within a solid printed area.
noun:  (printing, informal) A serif or other ornamentation on type.
noun:  Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
noun:  A tool for making smooth, semicircular bends in conduit and pipe.
noun:  (US, slang, business, finance) An unintended negative outcome or loss in regards to a deal or action.
noun:  A surname from Irish.

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