Meanings
- datedTo a very distant or unreachable place.
- datedUsed as an intensifier: very, immensely, to a great extent.
When I saw him, he was wired to the moon. He didn't come down for two days.
Synonyms: to the moon and back
- slangTowards prosperity and greatness.
- slangbusinessOf a cryptocurrency, increasing rapidly and substantially in value.
The marketing of this relatively new money has so far been limited mostly to ads on trade websites and targeted pushes on social media, where aficionados swap meme-fueled in-jokes about coin values rocketing to the moon.
2021 July 7, Tiffany Hsu, Coral Murphy Marcos, “Cryptocurrency Seeks the Spotlight, With Spike Lee’s Help”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 Nov 2021
- slangbusinessAn aspirational or rallying call for confidence that the value of a cryptocurrency will greatly increase in the future.
Synonyms & antonyms
prepositional phraseUsed as an intensifier: very, immensely, to a great extent.
Cite this entry
to the moon. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/to%20the%20moon
“to the moon.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/to%20the%20moon. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “to the moon,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/to%20the%20moon.
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