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The announcer was wearing a mike. Tesla pioneered this drop-the-mike tech and Genesis has embraced it. In the pilot, there’s a scene where a tech guy comes up and grabs a mike. Mike Sacks, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. Michaels, who will call his 11th Super Bowl Sunday when NBC broadcasts the game between the Cincinnati Bengals and the LA Rams, has been on the mike for some of the best moments in sports. Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 12 Feb. Two male sports broadcasters were fired after they were caught on a hot mike body shaming female high school basketball players on a Maine radio station.

The venue’s open-mike event, Grito de Boyle Heights, is hosted by Sammy Quetzalli on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month. Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. In the back, Andy Conrad picked up a mike to challenge the emphasis on extending maximum life span, which is currently around a hundred and fifteen. Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. At the mike, Meera Dasgupta—a former New York City Youth Poet Laureate, and the reigning National Youth Poet Laureate—introduced her poem. Eztli, who has become a talent scout for poets across southeastern Los Angeles, likewise met Torres at an open mike night at Cruzita’s Deli in Huntington Park about four years ago.

These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word ‘mike. Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Mike’ is a shortened form of ‘microphone. Subscribe to America’s largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free! Get Word of the Day daily email! Named after Sir Robert Peel, what are British police called?