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The announcer was wearing a mike.
Recent Examples of mike from the Web
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Timmons said, explaining the difference between being a mike linebacker and playing on the weak side or the strong side.
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There’s cameras and a man holding a boom mike who’s ready to go home.
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When the panel's host Patton Oswalt asked for fan questions, the first person to walk up to the mike was none other than Purser.
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O’Michael’s Pub & Grill: Sat: Gentle Rowser, 8-11 p.m. Thu: open mike night with Uncle Chris, 7-10 p.m. 2433 N. Bogus Basin Road, Boise. 342-8948.
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MORE MIKE AND MIKE Greenberg is leaving for his own television show that begins in January, breaking up the duo that had been together since 1998.
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Church had multiple mike stands placed at various sides (and used them often).
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For a sequence in which Rae’s character pursues a love interest at a corny open-mike night, Matsoukas found a historic club with swirling tile mosaics on the walls, then painstakingly lit it to flatter the actors.
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Origin and Etymology of mike
Other Audio Recording Terms
Definition of mike
miked;
miking
transitive verb
:to supply with a microphone
First Known Use of mike
1939
Other Audio Recording Terms
First Known Use of mike
1942
MIKE Defined for English Language Learners
mike
verb
Definition of mike for English Language Learners
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: to put a microphone on (someone)
MIKE Defined for Kids
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