Meanings
nounmooncricket (plural mooncrickets)
plural mooncrickets
- alternativeAlternative spelling of moon cricket.
When she was presented with a tweet that read “Listen to that mooncricket sing”, she almost clicked on the “no” button before deciding to check the meaning of the word “mooncricket”, which, to her surprise, was a racial slur against Black Americans.
2025 November 22, Varsha Bansal, “Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
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mooncricket. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mooncricket
MLA
“mooncricket.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mooncricket. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mooncricket,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mooncricket.
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