If you take the mickey out of someone or something, you make fun of them, usually in an unkind way. He started taking the mickey out of this poor man just because he is bald. = mock, tease. take the mickey (out of sb) to make someone look silly, often in a friendly way, for example by copying them or by pretending something is true when it is not (From the male name Mickey). Mantle Mickey Mickey Charles Mantle Mickey Mouse Rooney Mickey Spillane Mickey Wright Mickey