- present participle of moon.
mooning
Example Sentences
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Bogotá’s unorthodox mayor, Antanas Mockus—who rose to fame after mooning student protesters and deployed mimes to control traffic—viewed the activity as a gambit “to achieve self-regulation in the behavior among citizens.”
From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2024
To say that “a computer understands” is like saying that your car is losing its sense of humor or mooning over an old girlfriend.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 24, 2023
Anduaga’s soigné style, and vibrant yet plangent timbre, made him an uncommonly sensitive Nemorino — more of a melancholy-prone Werther scribbling poeticisms in a notebook than a sunny country bumpkin mooning over his beloved.
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2023
Bad-boy drummer Tommy Lee, known for mooning the audience and for his marriage to Heather Locklear, is a key part of the band’s hardcore image.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2022
Neither he nor Kaspo- rio nor any of the other sellswords knew the fate of the denizens of Yezzan’s grotesquerie... but if Pretty Penny needed lies to stop her mooning, lie to her he would.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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