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to moon

to moon

13 9.9
To show your bare bottom to someone as a joke or insult
  • verb
  • /muːn/
  • Offensive
translation icon : mostrar las nalgas
  • Personally, I think mooning your friends at a college reunion is no big deal.
  • moon the crowd
  • pants down and mooned
  • mooned in trousers

Yeah, I listen, They may I just say that because I moon them now and then.

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Examples

  • Mooning the guy at the drive-through window.

  • They're probably mooning some takeout window at the local burger joint by now.

  • OK, dear, I dare you to moon the neighbor.

  • I mooned the bus, and they wanna kick me out of school.

  • Was that the same day that you stuck your face out the car window and got arrested for mooning?

  • When the ship was directly across from them, they stood up with a quick, practiced movement that implied a regular happening and dropped their pants to moon the tourists.

    Academic text (2008)
  • The performers had been warned ahead of time about keeping their clothes on, so when front man Luther Campbell mooned the audience at the end, "everybody went to jail," Fuller said.

    Blog text (33)
  • He mooned me.

  • LBJ turns his back to the fish-eye lens, drops his trousers, and moons the camera.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • At the party, she decided to moon her friends as a joke, causing everyone to burst into laughter.

Idioms

over the moon
  • Informal
13 4.9

Feeling very happy and excited because something good happened

6 5.0

Happens very rarely

4 8.2

To make a long loud cry like a wolf to show strong feeling

1 7.6

To demand something that is impossible or too much

to hung the moon
  • Informal
1 9.6

To think someone is perfect and cannot do wrong

1 6.8

Tell someone you will do something very big although you cannot do it

1 6.3

Feel very strong love for someone

To want something that is impossible or not realistic

Admire someone so much that you think they are perfect

An impossible thing that someone asks for

Phrasal Verbs

to moon around
  • Informal
1 8.1

To spend time daydreaming and doing nothing useful

1 8.1

To walk or sit around slowly while feeling sad and lost in thought

9.5

To sit or stand and stare while lost in thought

Compounds

116 1.2

A time when the Moon's whole face looks bright from Earth

9 2.8

A thin crescent of the Moon that first appears after a dark period

blue moon
  • Informal
7 6.1

An event that happens very rarely

6 4.7

A full moon that comes soon after the start of autumn and gives extra light for farmers

man in the moon
  • Literature
3 6.7

A shape people imagine on the moon's surface that looks like a face

A stage in the Moon's cycle that shows how much of it is lit

2 5.4

The moon looks red during a total eclipse when it passes into Earth's shadow because Earth's air filters sunlight

The half of the Moon that we never see from Earth

1 2.6

A time when half of the Moon appears lit by the Sun

1 9.1

A tree grown from seeds taken to the Moon on a space mission

blue moon event
  • Informal
6.6

A very rare event that almost never happens

full moon maple
  • Specialized
8.1

A small tree grown for its pretty, deeply cut leaves that turn bright red in autumn

A time when the Moon looks completely lit in the night sky

The time when the Moon looks fully round and very bright

3.9

A pale beam of light from the moon that shines at night

moon shell
  • Specialized
8.2

A smooth rounded sea snail shell with a small top often found on sandy beaches

moon shot
  • Specialized
5.1

A rocket launch that sends a spacecraft to the moon

7.9

A very ambitious project that is unlikely to succeed

9.9

A small evergreen bush with soft hairy leaves, yellow summer flowers, and snail-shaped seed pods

moon blindness
  • Specialized
9.8

Repeated inflammation in a horse's eye that can cause blindness

moon blindness
  • Archaic
9.8

Poor sight at night in people and animals often caused by lack of vitamin A

9.9

A plant with tall stems, thin leaves, and clusters of small white or pink flowers

9.9

A person who secretly brings goods into or out of a country to avoid paying taxes

6.2

A tall plant with white daisy-like flowers that grows in fields

9.9

A person who brings goods into or out of a country secretly to avoid paying taxes

8.6

A thin beam of light from the moon

moon-splashed
  • Literature
7.5

A place or object that has small areas lit by moonlight

An act of praying to the moon as if it were a god

9.9

A curved part of a fort wall shaped like a half moon for defenders to fire on attackers

4.2

A pale curved area at the base of a fingernail

A time when the Moon looks like a thin crescent at the start of a new moon cycle

How Indecent

to expose
  • NSFW
56 6.1
to streak
  • Offensive
11 8.6
to moon
  • Offensive
13 9.9
flash
16 5.8

Surface Forms

moon infinitive
mooned past
mooned past participle
mooning present participle
moons third person singular

Etymology

A helpful way to remember the verb moon, to show your bare butt, is to think the exposed round shape looks like a 'moon', so to 'moon' someone is to show that shape as a joke or insult.