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mooner

1. Someone who passes time in a languid, distracted, or aimless manner, half lost in contemplative thought but without a particular purpose; a day dreamer. I used to be worried that she was nothing more than a mooner with her head stuck in the clouds, but she proved to be one of the most intellectually advanced students this university has ever had. I spent a lot of my early teenage years as an angsty mooner, listening to melancholy indie music and musing over the nature of the world.
2. Someone who exposes their buttocks to others, typically as a prank (a practice called "mooning"). As the bus sped past us, a number of mooners stuck their rumps out the windows for us to see.
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mooner

1. n. a drunkard. (From moonshine.) This old mooner from up in the hills wandered into town last Friday and died in the town square.
2. n. an idler who does nothing better than stare at the moon. He’s sort of a mooner. No direction and no goals in life.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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"I just look upon the Mull mooners as a bit of fun and really good support."
Kevin De Bruyne scored one and set up a second for Kelechi Iheanacho with just 35 minutes gone to have 3,000 Blue Mooners dreaming of another 'Sick Swan', as City's 6-1 win at Old Trafford is remembered.
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Each parodies the field guide, the former identifying subspecies of flaneurs, badauds, and musards in Paris, the latter noting London's distinct categories of idlers, mooners and loungers.
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Every month the "Full Mooners" gather for a potluck or sail over to the Quay for dinner, then head out to the sheer magic of a two- or three-hour night sail where moonbeams dance like diamonds on the black waters.