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to the moon

to the moon prepositional phrase: to a very distant or unreachable place.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (dated) To a very distant or unreachable place.
  2. (dated) Used as an intensifier: very, immensely, to a great extent.
    • When I saw him, he was wired to the moon. He didn't come down for two days.
  3. (slang) Towards prosperity and greatness.
  4. (slang) Of a cryptocurrency, increasing rapidly and substantially in value.
    • The marketing of this relatively new money has so far been limited mostly to ads on trade websites and targeted pushes on social media, where aficionados swap meme-fueled in-jokes about coin values rocketing to the moon.2021 July 7, Tiffany Hsu, Coral Murphy Marcos, “Cryptocurrency Seeks the Spotlight, With Spike Lee’s Help”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 Nov 2021

Interjection

  1. (slang) An aspirational or rallying call for confidence that the value of a cryptocurrency will greatly increase in the future.

Synonyms of to the moon

Questions about to the moon

What does to the moon mean?
To the moon means to a very distant or unreachable place.
What part of speech is to the moon?
To the moon can be a prepositional phrase or an interjection.

Words near to the moon in the dictionary

  1. to the manner born
  2. to the manor born
  3. to the marrow
  4. to the max
  5. to the minute
  6. to the moon
  7. to the moon and back
  8. to the nines
  9. to the nth degree
  10. to the point
  11. to the power of

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