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Mickey Mouse - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
adjective adjective
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proper noun anthropomorphic mouse.adjective idiomatic Of an item of dubious quality .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After the cartoon character Mickey Mouse , created by Walt Disney.]
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She didn't name names, but Maria Sharpova's shrieks have been compared with a pneumatic drill, and Victoria Azarenka has been described as "Mickey Mouse in distress."
Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories Len Berman 2011
She didn't name names, but Maria Sharpova's shrieks have been compared with a pneumatic drill, and Victoria Azarenka has been described as "Mickey Mouse in distress."
Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories Len Berman 2011
The ID had Mickey Mouse as the photo and his name Mickey Mouse - Poor kid was misdirected by the oak leafs on the officer's shoulder. by Anonymous Coward - Oct 26th, 2008 @ 12: 42am
Techdirt 2008
The ID had Mickey Mouse as the photo and his name Mickey Mouse - Poor kid was misdirected by the oak leafs on the officer's shoulder. by Anonymous Coward - Oct 26th, 2008 @ 12: 42am
Techdirt 2008
The tiny, endangered rodent is known as the Mickey Mouse of the desert due to its large ears.
CNN Transcript Dec 10, 2007 2007
The tiny, endangered rodent is known as the Mickey Mouse of the desert due to its large ears; kind of cute.
CNN Transcript Dec 10, 2007 2007
It was the worst sexual assault incident in Academy history and had come to be known as the Mickey Mouse rape.
The Shattered Blue Line Patrick A. Davis 2005
It was the worst sexual assault incident in Academy history and had come to be known as the Mickey Mouse rape.
The Shattered Blue Line Patrick A. Davis 2005
They dropped Prestone and chains, parkas that covered you to your ankles and thermal rubber boots we called Mickey Mouse boots. "
billingsgazette.com 2009
From the sound of it, there'd been a fault in the "mouse" worn by one of the plane directors, the distinctive earphone headset also affectionately called a Mickey Mouse , and the director hadn't noticed yet that he was off the air.
Countdown Douglass, Keith 1994
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