mickey mouse
–noun (often initial capital letters
) Informal.
) 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
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| Mickey Mouse
adj. Slang
[After the cartoon character Mickey Mouse, created by Walt Disney.] |
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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 |
| mickey mouse | |
noun | |
| a fictional mouse created in animated film strips by Walt Disney |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
Mickey Mouse
A cartoon character created by Walt Disney. Mickey's image is so widespread that he has achieved the status of myth.
[Chapter:] Mythology and Folklore
| The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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