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mic
1[ mahyk ]
Mic.
2abbreviation for
- Micah.
mic
1/ ³¾²¹Éª°ì /
noun
- informal.short for microphone
Mic.
2abbreviation for
- Micah
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of mic1
Idioms and Phrases
- drop the mic, Informal.
- to intentionally drop one’s microphone at the end of a speech or performance, displaying a bold confidence that it has been very impressive or cannot be topped.
- to say or do something with such a bold confidence:
He clearly dropped the mic on his critics, effectively cutting off further discussion.
Example Sentences
Coincidentally, Cooper also had met Berger separately at an open mic at the Cahuenga General Store.
A middle-aged woman took the mic and explained that, as a naturalized U.S. citizen from Colombia, she’s deeply concerned about the Trump administration’s lawless deportation of immigrants, like Venezuelan makeup artist Andry Hernandez Romero.
When one resident, named Raj, took the mic, he made a familiar—and probably not particularly welcome—reference: He told Khanna that he reminded him of former President Barack Obama.
"Instead of doing a screen test and auditions, it was like, 'we've seen your videos, here's your mic, here's your earpiece, off you pop'," he says.
Of course, Stephen Miller is about as funny as a hack comic on open mic night.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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