Meanings
plural Mouseketeers
- Any of the child or teenage performers featured in the American television variety show The Mickey Mouse Club.
And that cartel's got a network that makes the CIA look like Mouseketeers.
1989, M J Adamson, April When They Woo2 more examples
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 […]
1982 August, Deirdre English, “We oughta be in pictures”, in Mother Jones Magazine, volume 7, number 7The 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.
2004, Robert William Kubey, Creating television
Origin
Blend of mouse + musketeer, from the Mickey Mouse ears worn by the performers.
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