this is some of the lyrics from annies hard knock life? what is a mickey finn?

Question

Yank the whiskers from her chin
Jab her with a safety Pin
Make her drink a mickey finn
I love you, Miss Hannigan

Answer 1

A Mickey Finn is a 'doctored' drink

Answer 2

I Think It's A Drink That Is Stronger Than You Think
You Have Orange Juice And Someone Slips A Vodka In It,
Not Sure If That's Right.
To Knock The Person Out.

Answer 3

Spotted this ages ago, hope this helps

"Micky Finn was, around 1896, the dubious proprietor of the Lone Star Saloon and Palm Garden Restaurant, the lowest and roughest of all the saloons on Whiskey Row, Chicago. The Palm Garden was so called because it featured a scrawny palm tree in a pot and in this dark, secluded area, the pickpockets trained by Finn practised their arts. Victims had their drinks laced with chloral hydrate "knock-out drops", were rendered sleepy, deprived of clothes, money or virtue and slung out into an alleyway. By 1903 the saloon had been closed down. Finn escaped prosecution and found work as a bartender, supplementing his wage by selling details of his secret "recipe".
Chloral hydrate, a near-relative of chloroform, was discovered in 1832. Its nasty taste had to be disguised by a strong-tasting drink, usually whiskey. It was widely used as a sedative in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was occasionally used in this country as a soporific as late as 1998.
Alan Dronsfield, Swanwick, Derbyshire."

Answer 4

I'm obliged to note there's no agreement on what goes in a Mickey (AKA a Mickey Finn or Mickey Flynn), how it got its name, or even what it's supposed to do. Most people think a Mickey is a dose of knockout drops, usually administered to some hapless barfly as a preamble to rolling him. But to some it means a purgative--an agent, as my dictionary drolly puts it, "tending to cause evacuation of the bowels." One source goes so far as to say the original Mickey was a laxative for horses. This kind of Mickey you'd feed to a drunk to get rid of him.

As for what's in it--well, take your pick. A 1931 magazine article says it's croton oil, a purgative, while a slang dictionary says it's chloral hydrate, a sedative/hypnotic. To further confuse things, you sometimes see references to "croton chloral hydrate," which from the sound of it accelerates business at one end of you while slowing it down at the other. Others say a Mickey is cigar ashes in a carbonated beverage, or merely an industrial strength drink.

Most word books say the origin of "Mickey Finn" is obscure. But Cecil has come across one colorful if not necessarily reliable explanation in Gem of the Prairie, a 1940 history of the Chicago underworld by Herbert Asbury. Asbury claims the original Mickey Finn was a notorious Chicago tavern proprietor in the city's South Loop, then as now a nest of hardened desperadoes. In 1896 Finn opened a dive named the Lone Star Saloon and Palm Garden, where he fenced stolen goods, supervised pickpockets and B-girls, and engaged in other equally sleazy enterprises.

Around 1898 Finn obtained a supply of "white stuff" that may have been chloral hydrate. He made this the basis of two knockout drinks, the "Mickey Finn Special," consisting of raw alcohol, water in which snuff had been soaked, and a dollop of white stuff; and "Number Two," beer mixed with a jolt of white plus the aforementioned snuff water. Lone Star patrons who tried either of these concoctions soon found themselves face down in the popcorn. At the end of the night they were dragged into a back room, stripped of their valuables and sometimes even their clothes, then dumped in an alley. When the victims awoke they could remember nothing.

Finn evidently paid off the cops but became such a nuisance even by Chicago standards that his joint was ordered shut down in 1903. He was never prosecuted, however, and after a brief hiatus returned to bartending, having sold the MF recipe to other tavern owners. Eventually "Mickey Finn" became the name for any sort of knockout punch. How lucky we are that no one sells things like that today.

Answer 5

"Micky Finn was, around 1896, the dubious proprietor of the Lone Star Saloon and Palm Garden Restaurant, the lowest and roughest of all the saloons on Whiskey Row, Chicago. The Palm Garden was so called because it featured a scrawny palm tree in a pot and in this dark, secluded area, the pickpockets trained by Finn practised their arts. Victims had their drinks laced with chloral hydrate "knock-out drops", were rendered sleepy, deprived of clothes, money or virtue and slung out into an alleyway. By 1903 the saloon had been closed down. Finn escaped prosecution and found work as a bartender, supplementing his wage by selling details of his secret "recipe".
Chloral hydrate, a near-relative of chloroform, was discovered in 1832. Its nasty taste had to be disguised by a strong-tasting drink, usually whiskey. It was widely used as a sedative in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was occasionally used in this country as a soporific as late as 1998.

Answer 6

A Mickey Finn is a spiked drink.

Answer 7

A mickey finn is a cocktail containing enough alcohol to knock you out especially if you are not a drinker.

Answer 8

A mickey finn is when you give someone a drink like coke but put spirits in it without them knowing.. 'slip them a mickey finn...'

Answer 9

Mickey Finn is something you add to a drink to knock them out so you can take advantage of them or rob them. Its really a dose of knockout drops.

Answer 10

It's a drug - Chloral Hydrate in alcohol - a form of knock-out drops that make the victim unconscious or incapacitated, like chloroform (but in liquid form). Usually the victim's drink was spiked with it, then they would drink it unknowingly. Very popular in old private eye movies!