Mickey Mouseadjective [ before noun ]
uk/ˌmɪk.i ˈmaʊs/us/ˌmɪk.i ˈmaʊs/informal disapprovingused to describe something such as an organization, machine, or course of study that you think is not as good or serious as it should be:
He works for some Mickey Mouse outfit (= company) in Oklahoma.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Crude and basic
- 101
- at bottom idiom
- backward
- bare
- basic
- bottom
- crude
- homespun
- low-tech
- primal
- primordial
- rough
- rough and ready idiom
- rude
- simple
- skeletal
- stone-age
- two-dimensional
- vanilla
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