to moon
- verb
- /muːn/
- Offensive
- 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.
- Yeah, I listen, They may I just say that because I moon them now and then.
- And my granddad were like Dorothy's granddad till my granddad once mooned us all.
Examples
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Mooning the guy at the drive-through window.
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They're probably mooning some takeout window at the local burger joint by now.
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OK, dear, I dare you to moon the neighbor.
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I mooned the bus, and they wanna kick me out of school.
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Was that the same day that you stuck your face out the car window and got arrested for mooning?
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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.
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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
- Informal
Tell someone you will do something very big although you cannot do it
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
A full moon that comes soon after the start of autumn and gives extra light for farmers
- Literature
A shape people imagine on the moon's surface that looks like a face
The moon looks red during a total eclipse when it passes into Earth's shadow because Earth's air filters sunlight
- Specialized
A small tree grown for its pretty, deeply cut leaves that turn bright red in autumn
- Specialized
A smooth rounded sea snail shell with a small top often found on sandy beaches
- UK
A small evergreen bush with soft hairy leaves, yellow summer flowers, and snail-shaped seed pods
- Archaic
Poor sight at night in people and animals often caused by lack of vitamin A
- UK
A plant with tall stems, thin leaves, and clusters of small white or pink flowers
- NSFW
A person who secretly brings goods into or out of a country to avoid paying taxes
- UK
A person who brings goods into or out of a country secretly to avoid paying taxes
- Archaic
A curved part of a fort wall shaped like a half moon for defenders to fire on attackers
A time when the Moon looks like a thin crescent at the start of a new moon cycle
How Indecent
Surface Forms
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.