单词 | space cadet |
释义 | > as lemmasspace cadet space cadet n. (a) a trainee spaceman or spacewoman; also in extended use; (b) slang a person regarded as out of touch with reality, esp. (as if) as a result of taking drugs; a person prone to flights of fancy or irrational or strange behaviour. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > people who fly in aircraft or spacecraft > [noun] > astronaut or traveller in space > trainee or enthusiast space cadet1948 1948 R. A. Heinlein (title) Space Cadet. 1952 Newsweek 13 Oct. 39/2 (caption) Test pilot A. M. ‘Tex’ Johnston..resembles a space cadet in the new high~altitude helmet and suit designed to protect pilots in the upper air. 1958 C. C. Adams et al. Space Flight p. vii There have been space books for children—our present space cadets and future rocket pilots. 1973 Slang (typescript) (Univ. North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Fall Space cadette [sic], someone who acts spaced out, i.e., as if he has been on drugs: out of touch with reality. 1978 Washington Post 8 Oct. h1/2 ‘Drugs can be fun.’ He says this matter-of-factly, although he often makes jokes about ‘space cadets’. 1987 Today 21 Oct. 36/1 You need never be considered a Space Cadet (dumbo) again. 1992 Face Feb. 69/1 What those old space cadets were actually boldly going around in were shell suits. 2002 Sound & Vision May 106/1 The best tracks on Uninvisible sound like a convincing meld of meat-and-potatoes organists like Freddie Roach and space cadets like Sun Ra. 2005 BBC Focus Dec. 62/2 I also wrote The Planets because I love space. I'm a card-carrying space cadet at heart. < as lemmas |
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