Meaning

9 senses
  1. (slang)A bruise-like mark made during petting by pressing the mouth to the skin on one’s partner’s body and sucking.

    Knutschfleck

    засо́сzasós

    a temporary red mark on a person's skin resulting from kissing or sucking by their lover

  2. A similar mark made by the pressure of a musical instrument such as a violin or viola against the neck.

  3. (US, dialectal)A pimple.

  4. (informal, slang)An object whose name is unknown or cannot be recalled.

    Dingsbums, Dings, Dingsda

  5. 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, or as an unprinted spot within a solid printed area.

  6. (informal)A serif or other ornamentation on type.

  7. Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.

    Beule, Horn

  8. A tool for making smooth, semicircular bends in conduit and pipe.

  9. (US, slang)An unintended negative outcome or loss in regards to a deal or action.

    take a hickey

    Farmer Jones took a hickey on his soybean crop when the flood washed the seeds away.

Examples

5 sentences
  1. How long does a hickey last?

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  2. Is that a hickey on your neck?

    ruЭто что у тебя на шее, засос?

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  3. I told you not to give me a hickey!

    Я ж бо сказала тобі, без засосу!

    ruЯ говорил тебе не оставлять на мне засосов!

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  4. Tom saw that Mary had a hickey on her neck.

    ruТом увидел на шее у Мэри засос.

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  5. Is that a hickey?

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
bruise-like mark:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
bruise-like mark:
referring to an object whose name is unknown or cannot be recalled:
swelling in a tissue area:

Forms

plural: hickeys

Synonyms

105 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a temporary red mark on a person's skin resulting from kissing or sucking by their lover:love bite
  • a small inflamed elevation of the skin; a pustule or papule; common symptom in acne:pimplezit

Word family

1 related words
Deriveddoohickey

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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