moonbat
nounEtymology
From moon + bat. Originally the name of the XP-67 experimental aircraft, developed by McDonnell Aircraft in 1941. Used in the 1940s by the science-fiction writer Robert Heinlein, then used in the term “barking moonbat” coined in 1999 by Perry de Havilland of “The Libertarian Samizdata”, a right-libertarian weblog. This originally referred to both left-wing and right-wing crazy people. Sometimes wrongly claimed to be a corruption of Monbiot (from George Monbiot, British environmentalist and Guardian columnist).
Definitions
A liberal (someone with a left-wing ideology).
- So, what do moonbat professors do when they're not attacking military recruiters, the Bush administration, cameramen, and College Republicans?
- Your job is to separate the media from the moonbats before some industrious cub reporter starts looking into our land deal.
(of ideas) Absurd or obviously untruthful.
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Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for moonbat. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA