English Dictionary

moon

/muːn/

verb

(transitive, colloquial) To display one's buttocks to, typically as a jest, insult, or protest. / (intransitive, colloquial) To gaze at lovingly or in adoration.

The astronauts will explore the moon.

意味（1）

(transitive, colloquial) To display one's buttocks to, typically as a jest, insult, or protest.

The hooligans mooned the riot police.

意味（2）

(intransitive, colloquial) To gaze at lovingly or in adoration.

Bradly stood bewitched, mooning at the moon. Betimes he bent in a grotesque posture and looked at it between his legs, which was to rid his mind of preconceived colour values by seeing them upside down.

意味（3）

(intransitive, colloquial) (usually followed by over or after) To fuss over something adoringly; to be infatuated with someone.

Sarah mooned over Sam's photograph for months.

意味（4）

To spend time idly, absent-mindedly.

We were only three on board. The poor old skipper mooned in the cabin.

意味（5）

(transitive) To expose to the rays of the Moon.

意味（6）

(transitive) To adorn with moons or crescents.

意味（7）

(cryptocurrencies, of a coin or token) To rise in price rapidly.

It is impractical if a currency moons and plummets often.

意味（8）

(card games) To shoot the moon.