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Definition of hickeys in English English dictionary
- plural of hickey
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- An Irish surname anglicised from Ó hÍcidhe (“descendant of a person named Healer”)
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- A bruise-like mark made during petting by pressing the mouth to the skin on one’s partner’s body and sucking
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- A hickey or love-bite or is a temporary mark or bruise on one's skin (medically, a minor hematoma) resulting from kissing or sucking or biting forcefully enough to burst blood vessels beneath the skin. It could also be called a "love-mark", a "passion mark" or a "slag tag". Love-bites or hickeys are generally considered more passionate when biting is involved
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- An Irish family name
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- unplanned spots that appear during printing due to dust
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- A tool for making smooth, semicircular bends in conduit and pipe
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- A bruise-like mark made during love-making by pressing the mouth to the skin on one's partner's body and sucking
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- a temporary red mark on a person's skin resulting from kissing or sucking by their lover
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- Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury
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- something whose name is either forgotten or not known
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- Used by some speakers to refer to an object whose name is unknown or cannot be recalled
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- a red mark on someone's skin caused by someone else sucking it as a sexual act British Equivalent: lovebite
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- 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
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- a small inflamed elevation of the skin; a pustule or papule; common symptom in acne
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- Spot or imperfection in printing, most visible in areas of heavy ink coverage, caused by dirt on the plate or blanket Also called bulls eye and fish eye
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- {i} gadget, device, whatchamacallit; pimple; red mark on the skin caused by sucking or biting