Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Unimportant; trivial.
- adjective Intellectually unchallenging; simple.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun The most famous Disney character, an
anthropomorphic mouse. - adjective idiomatic Of an item of
dubious quality .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a fictional mouse created in animated film strips by Walt Disney
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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She didn't name names, but Maria Sharpova's shrieks have been compared with a pneumatic drill, and Victoria Azarenka has been described as "Mickey Mouse in distress."
Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories Len Berman 2011
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She didn't name names, but Maria Sharpova's shrieks have been compared with a pneumatic drill, and Victoria Azarenka has been described as "Mickey Mouse in distress."
Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories Len Berman 2011
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The ID had Mickey Mouse as the photo and his name Mickey Mouse - Poor kid was misdirected by the oak leafs on the officer's shoulder. by Anonymous Coward - Oct 26th, 2008 @ 12: 42am
Techdirt 2008
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The ID had Mickey Mouse as the photo and his name Mickey Mouse - Poor kid was misdirected by the oak leafs on the officer's shoulder. by Anonymous Coward - Oct 26th, 2008 @ 12: 42am
Techdirt 2008
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The tiny, endangered rodent is known as the Mickey Mouse of the desert due to its large ears.
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The tiny, endangered rodent is known as the Mickey Mouse of the desert due to its large ears; kind of cute.
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It was the worst sexual assault incident in Academy history and had come to be known as the Mickey Mouse rape.
The Shattered Blue Line Patrick A. Davis 2005
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It was the worst sexual assault incident in Academy history and had come to be known as the Mickey Mouse rape.
The Shattered Blue Line Patrick A. Davis 2005
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They dropped Prestone and chains, parkas that covered you to your ankles and thermal rubber boots we called Mickey Mouse boots. "
billingsgazette.com 2009
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From the sound of it, there'd been a fault in the "mouse" worn by one of the plane directors, the distinctive earphone headset also affectionately called a Mickey Mouse, and the director hadn't noticed yet that he was off the air.
Countdown Douglass, Keith 1994
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