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Mouseketeer

noun

Etymology

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

  1. borrowed from mousquetaire
  2. compounded as mouseketeer — “mouse + musketeer”

Definitions

  1. Any of the child or teenage performers featured in the American television variety show…

    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 […]
    • And that cartel's got a network that makes the CIA look like Mouseketeers.
    • The research for that really disturbed me because so many of the Mouseketeers were living lives of quiet desperation. They hadn't profited emotionally, or financially, or professionally.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA