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moonwalking, vbl. n. (Formerly at moon n.1 16 in Dict.)|ˈmuːnwɔːkɪŋ|
Also moon walking, moon-walking.
[f. moon n.1 + walking vbl. n.1]
1. Psychol. [tr. Ger. Mondsucht (lit. ‘craving for, obsession with, the moon’) somnambulism, sleepwalking.] Sleepwalking by moonlight. rare.
1919Psychoanal. Rev. VI. 159 The phenomena of sleep walking and moon walking must be acknowledged..almost entirely as pathological. 1938B. L. Burman Blow for Landing viii. 121 ‘If Miss Birdie'd just start some moon walking, she'd git over being scared of the river sure,’ he declared with solemnity.‘..Jest take off her shoes in the light of the moon and walk up and down in water over her toes.’ 1950Webster Add., Moonwalking, sleepwalking outdoors in bright moonlight.
2. a. The action of walking on the moon.
1981Times 23 Mar. 77/2 Pictorial representations covering every subject from cave painting to moon walking. 1991New Scientist 28 Sept. 57/3 At least the Moon shot entertained. Great TV: ‘This is a small step for a man, etc etc.’ Moon walking is in a totally different televisual ballpark.
b. transf. and fig. Any exaggeratedly slow action, dance, or method of proceeding which resembles the characteristic weightless movement of walking on the moon.
1980Christian Science Monitor 12 Sept. b8/3 One hang balloon thrill is ‘moon walking’: heating the balloon until you are almost weightless and then hopping across the landscape as if gravity were a figment of Sir Isaac Newton's imagination. 1987Forbes (N.Y.) 18 May 130/1 While giving the illusion of moving forward, the firm in fact was all the while sliding backward—the financial equivalent of what street dancers call ‘moonwalking’. 1988Los Angeles Times 19 Feb. (Calendar) 25/2 ‘Kids think they were the first ones to come up with moonwalking and poplocking,’ Whitmore said. ‘They don't know that those dances came from people with names like Rubber Legs, Snakey and Bubbles, and go all the way back to slave days.’
Hence (as a back-formation) ˈmoonwalk v. and n.; moonwalker n.
1950Webster Add., Moonwalker. 1966Webster Add., Moonwalk, an instance of walking on the moon. 1969Times 3 June (Suppl.) p. iii/1 The two moon-walkers will be in the lunar module's upper, or ascent stage. 1969Daily Tel. 16 July 22/2 While on the moon, the astronauts will..only moon-walk for about 3½ to four hours. 1969Observer 20 July 1/2 Hints that the ‘moonwalk’ will also be brought forward were strengthened when the astronauts' physician..said that he did not now expect the two men to go to sleep on the moon. 1991Inside Sports Aug. 20/3 Bob Rubin has been banned by his softball league from moonwalking his way around the bases after he hits a home run. 1992J. & M. Stern Encycl. Pop Culture 247/2 His signature ‘moonwalk’ in which he seemed to defy the laws of physics by striding forward but moving back, became the single best-known bit of celebrity body language since the four Beatles. 1994Guardian 1 July ii. 28/1 If the Apollo missions had continued and lunar voyages had become commonplace, the moonwalkers themselves would seem no more exotic..than Concorde pilots. |