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mooncricket

mooncricket is the alternative spelling of moon cricket.

Meaning of moon cricket

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

Forms of mooncricket

pluralmooncrickets

Questions about mooncricket

What is mooncricket the alternative spelling of?
Mooncricket is the alternative spelling of moon cricket.

Words near mooncricket in the dictionary

  1. moonchildren
  2. moonclad
  3. mooncraft
  4. mooncrafts
  5. mooncrete
  6. mooncricket
  7. mooncrickets
  8. mooncup
  9. mooncups
  10. mooncusser
  11. mooncussers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mooncricket (page history and authors); moon cricket (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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