Mouseketeer
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Blend of mouse + musketeer, from the Mickey Mouse ears worn by the performers.
Noun[edit]
Mouseketeer (plural Mouseketeers)
- Any of the child or teenage performers featured in the American television variety show The Mickey Mouse Club.
- 1982 August, Deirdre English, “We oughta be in pictures”, in Mother Jones Magazine, volume 7, number 7:
- 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 […]
- 1989, M J Adamson, April When They Woo:
- And that cartel's got a network that makes the CIA look like Mouseketeers.
- 2004, Robert William Kubey, Creating television:
- 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.