moondoggle
moondoggle noun: efforts to transport people to the Moon, regarded as a useless waste of resources.
Noun
moondoggle (plural moondoggles)
- Efforts to transport people to the Moon, regarded as a useless waste of resources.
- We are virtually abandoning the first Outer Space area through which military attacks may be launched, to spend billions on a nonmilitary moondoggle — the attempt to put a man on the moon.1963, Frank L. Kluckhohn, What's wrong with U. S. foreign policy?, page 9
- He stated that “as long as James E. Webb is the Administrator of NASA, I am not voting another dollar for this moondoggle. […]1971, Thomas P. Murphy, Science, Geopolitics, and Federal Spending, page 372
Forms of moondoggle
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Origin of moondoggle
Blend of Moon + boondoggle.
Questions about moondoggle
- What does moondoggle mean?
- Moondoggle means efforts to transport people to the Moon, regarded as a useless waste of resources.
- What part of speech is moondoggle?
- Moondoggle is a noun.
- What is the plural of moondoggle?
- The plural of moondoggle is moondoggles.
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