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mickey mouse

 
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–noun (often initial capital letters) Informal.
1. trite and commercially slick in character; corny: mickey mouse music.
2. useless, insignificant, or worthless: mickey mouse activities just to fill up one's time.
3. trivial or petty: mickey mouse regulations.
Origin:
1930–35; after the animated cartoon character created by Walt Disney, orig. with reference to the banal dance-band music played as background to the cartoons
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Mickey Mouse  
adj.   Slang

    1. Unimportant; trivial: "It's a Mickey Mouse operation compared to what goes on in Lyons or Paris" (Jack Higgins).

    2. Irritatingly petty: the school's Mickey Mouse requirements for graduation.

  2. Intellectually unchallenging; simple: His Mickey Mouse assignments soon bored the students.

  3. Melodramatic or sentimental. Used especially of popular music.


[After the cartoon character Mickey Mouse, created by Walt Disney.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Cultural Dictionary

Mickey Mouse

A cartoon character created by Walt Disney. Mickey's image is so widespread that he has achieved the status of myth.

The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Slang Dictionary
mickey mouse

  1. n.
    nonsense; something trivial. (From the world-famous mouse character by the same name, owned by The Walt Disney Company.) : This is just a lot of mickey mouse.
  2. mod.
    trivial; time wasting; lousy. : I want out of this mickey mouse place.
  3. n.
    a police officer. (Streets.) : Mickey mouse is hanging around asking about you.
  4. n.
    a bit of blotter impregnated with LSDwith a picture of The Walt Disney Company's Mickey Mouse on it. (Drugs.) : How much is the mickey mouse?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

Mickey Mouse 
cartoon mouse character created 1928 by Walt Disney (1901-66). As an adj. meaning "small and worthless" it dates from 1936, originally used especially of mediocre dance-band music, a put-down based on the type of tunes played as background in cartoon films.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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