moose
IPA: mˈus
noun
- The largest member of the deer family (Alces americanus, sometimes included in Alces alces), of which the male has very large, palmate antlers.
- Any of the extinct moose-like deer of the genera Cervalces and Libralces.
- (figuratively, derogatory, colloquial) An ugly person.
- (US, military, slang) An Asian girl taken as a lover.
- (slang, derogatory, religious slur) A Muslim.
- An English surname.
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Examples of "moose" in Sentences
- Nikkinen believes the moose is a youngster, about a year and a half old. ...
- But the moose is a sweetei (not so much though if they munch on your garden ...).
- According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the correct plural of "moose" is "moose."
- It's a little scary (the moose is the worst of it -- even trumps bear) but these sorts of things leave you alone unless you surprise them.
- The Europeans in Ceylon know it by the name of the "moose deer;" and in all probability the terms _musk_ and _moose_ are both corruptions of the
- 'As I sat before the fire on my fir-twig seat, without walls above or around me, I remembered how far on every hand that wilderness stretched, before you came to cleared or cultivated fields, and wondered if any bear or moose was watching the light of my fire; for nature looked sternly upon me on account of the _murder of the moose_.
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