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Mouseketeer

Mouseketeer noun: any of the child or teenage performers featured in the American television variety show The Mickey Mouse Club.

Noun

Mouseketeer (plural Mouseketeers)

  1. Any of the child or teenage performers featured in the American television variety show The Mickey Mouse Club.
    • Yes, I became one of those confused children in the school cafeteria who failed to identify with one of the Mouseketeers; one of those who flubbed in food fights because I had not sufficiently studied my friends' mentors […]1982 August, Deirdre English, “We oughta be in pictures”, in Mother Jones Magazine, volume 7, number 7
    • And that cartel's got a network that makes the CIA look like Mouseketeers.1989, M J Adamson, April When They Woo

Forms of Mouseketeer

pluralMouseketeers

Origin of Mouseketeer

Blend of mouse + musketeer, from the Mickey Mouse ears worn by the performers.

Questions about Mouseketeer

What does Mouseketeer mean?
Mouseketeer means any of the child or teenage performers featured in the American television variety show The Mickey Mouse Club.
What part of speech is Mouseketeer?
Mouseketeer is a noun.
What is the plural of Mouseketeer?
The plural of Mouseketeer is Mouseketeers.

Words near Mouseketeer in the dictionary

  1. mousehole
  2. mouseholes
  3. mouseholing
  4. mousehood
  5. Mouseion
  6. Mouseketeer
  7. Mouseketeers
  8. mousekin
  9. mousekind
  10. mousekins
  11. mouseless

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