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moon cricket

noun

Etymology

From moon + cricket. Perhaps a reference to slaves singing songs during the night.

  1. derived from *krakōn✻
  2. derived from kricken — “to creak; crack”
  3. derived from criket
  4. inherited from creket
  5. compounded as moon cricket — “moon + cricket”

Definitions

  1. 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.
    • Rooney Baxter, The Bluegrass Kid (page 182), 2015. They don't have a good enough reason to come at us now. And besides, moon crickets do drive-bys. This feels like a message from someone else.

The neighborhood

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