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moon
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natural satellite of our planet.(Noun) the body of rock orbiting earth.
(Noun) the most close heavenly object to earth.
(Noun) a natural satellite
(Noun) A natural satellite that orbits a planet.
(Noun) celestial body
Usage: he landed on the moon
1. The ass or the anus. Usage in this sense dates back to the mid-18 th century. See ass and anus for synonyms.
QUOTES:
(1) The script (Hilary Gilford) and Nicole Springer (Catherine Keener) in Living in Oblivion (1994):
-- Script: ' He's wonderful, isn't he? (...) I wonder what his sign is. Do you know, Nicole? '
-- Nicole: 'I don't know his sign, but I think his moon is in Uranus.' (A pun on: your anus.)
(2) Caroline (Andie MacDowell) and Charles (Hugh Grant) in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1993):
-- Carrie: ' Why do you think it's called honeymoon? '
-- Charles: ' Hmmm, I don't know. I suppose it's honey because it's sweet as honey and moon because it's the first time a husband got to see his wife's bottom.'
2. To expose ones buttocks in public as a prank. Synonym: wink the brown eye.
3. Or: moon about / moon along / moon around , to idle, lounge, or wander about aimslessly; to behave in a dreamy, abstracted manner from being moonstruck (infatuated).
QUOTE: Lt. Willoughby (Jack Allen) about Harry Faversham (John Clements) in The Four Feathers (1939): ' I don't know what's come over the lad. Can't take a joke, never takes a drink, moons about all day, reads poetry all night. If that's love, give me indigestion.'
4. Moon over / moon over / moon for , to yearn or pine for. See love for synonyms.
(Noun) An object that exclusively orbits one of the planets of the solar system, also an object that would have been a terrestrial planet if it had orbited a star, and instead orbits an object with sufficient mass to give itself a mostly round shape that in turn orbits a star, brown dwarf, or a sub-brown dwarf.
Usage: The moon orbits a secondary body whose primary is a sub-brown dwarf.
An object that exclusively orbits one of the planets of the solar system, also an object that would have been a terrestrial planet if it had orbited a star, and instead orbits an object with sufficient mass to give itself a mostly round shape that in turn orbits a star, stellar remnant, brown dwarf, or a sub-brown dwarf.
Usage: The moon orbits a secondary body whose primary is a sub-brown dwarf.
(Abbreviation) Molybdenum Observatory Of Neutrinos
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