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Mouseketeer en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of mouse + musketeer, from the Mickey Mouse ears worn by the performers.

Meanings

1. Any of the child or teenage performers featured in the American television variety show The Mickey Mouse Club.
   • And that cartel's got a network that makes the CIA look like Mouseketeers. 1989, M J Adamson, April When They Woo:
   • Yes, I became one of those confused children in the school cafeteria who failed to identify with one of the Mouseketeers; one of those who flubbed in food fights because I had not sufficiently studied my friends' mentors […] 1982 August, Deirdre English, “We oughta be in pictures”, in Mother Jones Magazine, volume 7, number 7:
   • The research for that really disturbed me because so many of the Mouseketeers were living lives of quiet desperation. They hadn't profited emotionally, or financially, or professionally. 2004, Robert William Kubey, Creating television:

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