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moon cricket

moon cricket noun: a black person.

Noun

moon cricket (plural moon crickets)

  1. (US, ethnic, slang, slur) A black person.
    • Her Dad had been someone her Mom didn't know in Houston. I always used to joke, "Maybe he was a Moon-Cricket from Alabama," but Trish is totally not black.2018, Tzvi Peckar III, Mini Thins, page 285
    • Quoted in 2020, Leslie Picca, Joe Feagin, Two-Faced Racism: Whites in the Backstage and Frontstage
      When we were leaving it was getting dark and my husband says to me “look at all of those moon crickets.” I confusingly asked him what he had meant by that. When we got into the car, he explained to me...

Forms of moon cricket

pluralmoon crickets
alternative formmooncricket
alternative formmoon-cricket

Origin of moon cricket

From moon + cricket. Perhaps a reference to slaves singing songs during the night.

Questions about moon cricket

What does moon cricket mean?
Moon cricket means a black person.
What part of speech is moon cricket?
Moon cricket is a noun.
What is the plural of moon cricket?
The plural of moon cricket is moon crickets.

Words near moon cricket in the dictionary

  1. moon cakes
  2. moon carrot
  3. moon carrots
  4. moon child
  5. moon children
  6. moon cricket
  7. moon crickets
  8. moon cycle
  9. moon cycles
  10. moon daisies
  11. moon daisy

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