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hickey

[hik-ee] / ˈhɪk i /




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The new season focuses on Nick and Charlie’s couple stuff: sharing a bed during a class trip to Paris, navigating hickey shame, coming out about their relationship.

From New York Times Jul. 29, 2023

A police report describes the mark as a hickey.

From Salon Aug. 15, 2018

To Von Plaanden's indignant disgust, his military splendor was seriously impaired by a huge "hickey" over his left eye, the memento of a well-aimed rock.

From The Unspeakable Perk by Samuel Hopkins Adams

Jepson has hired a lawyer and looked up that claim to the last infinitesimal hickey; he knows more about the Old Juan than I do.

From Rimrock Jones by Dane Coolidge

Hmm, buckteeth; sandy hair, smooth in front, cowlick in back; brown eyes, can’t see in the dark worth a nickel; hickeys on the chin.

From It’s like this, cat by Emily Neville

If the stitches were big and uneven, he gave two hickeys and a pinch, and one boy got half a dozen, because Johnny said his dirty hands made the thread gray.

From The Quilt that Jack Built; How He Won the Bicycle by Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze) Barry




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