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Moose

proper nounnouncommon in dialogue

An English surname.

proper noun

  1. 1

    An English surname.

Etymology

* Americanized form of German Moos. * Translation and shortening of a Native American name with a word meaning “moose”, such as Dakota ta.

noun

  1. 1

    slangA Muslim.

Etymology

Alteration of Muslim with moose.

Forms

plural
Mooses
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).