moonman means an MTV Video Music Award. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Etymology
From Moon + man; the MTV sense comes from the statuette given to winners that depicts an astronaut on the Moon.
noun
- An MTV Video Music Award.
- An unofficial parody of the McDonald's mascot Mac Tonight, who is depicted as a white supremacist.
- Synonym of man in the moon (“face perceived in the moon, or the character imagined for it”).“Towser lifts his nose and howls / Toward the moonman, far and dim; / But the moonman only scowls, / For no dog can frighten him.”
- Synonym of Lunarian (“inhabitant of the Moon”).“In this manner did I discourse with the Moonmen while taking my repast; after which they told me, if I had no objection, that they intended taking me to Moontown, to introduce me to their king […]”