Mickey (Finn)

Mickey (Finn)
   a drugged intoxicant
   Named after a late 19th-century Chicago innkeeper of evil repute. The commonest additive is chlorine, reacting with alcohol with dire effects (which also explains why ex-servicemen who soldiered in remote parts of the globe where all drinking water was heavily chlorinated still tend to drink their spirits neat). Sometimes as Mickey tout court or as MF:
    I'll tell pop to slip a mickey in your margarita. (Sanders, 1992)
    Had I been slipped an MF? (Burgess, 1980)

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