Usually means: Mocking someone in jest.
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  1. take the mickey, take the mickey (out of someone): Merriam-Webster
  2. take the mickey: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. take the mickey: Collins English Dictionary
  4. take the mickey: Wiktionary
  5. Take the mickey: World Wide Words
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  1. take the mickey: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary

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  1. Take the mickey: Idioms

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  1. take the mickey: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (take the mickey)

▸ verb:  (intransitive, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang, idiomatic) To ridicule or mock.

Similar:
mock, smoke, throw a mickey, slag, jibe, piss-take, pisstake, skit, rip the piss, gleek, more...

Opposite:
compliment, praise, applaud, commend

Phrases:
take the mickey out of, more...

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Similar:
mock, smoke, throw a mickey, slag, jibe, piss-take, pisstake, skit, rip the piss, gleek, more...

Opposite:
compliment, praise, applaud, commend

Phrases:
take the mickey out of, more...



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