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• mike, MIKE

Borrowed from English Mike.

• IPA^(key): ^[1]

Mike

1. (international standards) NATO, ICAO, ITU & IMO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for the letter M.
2. (nautical) Signal flag for the letter M.
3. (time zone) UTC+12:00

• (Irish labourer): John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Shortened from Michael.

• IPA^(key): /maɪk/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key):
• Homophones: mike, mic
• Rhymes: -aɪk

Mike

1. (World War II era, joint US/RAF) radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter M.

Mike (plural Mikes)

1. (slang) An Irishman, especially a labourer.

   Synonym: mick

   • quoted in 1996, Lady Gregory, James Pethica, Lady Gregory's Diaries, 1892-1902 (page 200)

     very hard work, a holy day — & the boys went on to & took the Mikes, so I cd get no helper but Marty — had to set up Punch & Judy show — & when I proposed to decorate tree heard it was still in the woods! However John Rourke appeared & dug up a small silver, to be planted again

   • 2006, Lyn Ebenezer, Fron-Goch and the Birth of the IRA, page 126:

     Gott strafe the roll-call, hurrah for the 'Mikes,' / Hurrah for the rebel boys that organised the strikes, / For everywhere the roll was called their names they didn't know.

Mike (countable and uncountable, plural Mikes)

1. (countable) A diminutive of the male given name Michael.
2. (countable) A diminutive of the female given name Michaela.

• → Hebrew: מייק (maik)

• Keim, Kemi, Kime, kime

From English Mike.

Mike

1. a male given name

Diminutive.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmike/,
• Rhymes: -ike
• Hyphenation^(key): Mi‧ke

Mike

1. A diminutive/nickname form of the given name Mikko, Mika or Mikael.
2. a male given name of rare usage

• Miki

• Mike is the 695^th (tied with 2 other names) most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 214 male individuals (and as a middle name to 45 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

• Kemi

Borrowed from English Mike.

• IPA^(key): /majk/

Mike m

1. a male given name

• Maik, Meik

Borrowed from English Mike.

Mike

1. a male given name