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Mickey Mouse
adjective- inferior, trivial, cheap US, 1947
Originally coined to describe inferior dance music, then given a broader sense. - — Arnold Shaw, Lingo of Tin-Pan Alley, p. 10, 1950
- After carefully parking a gleaming Selmer tenor on an adjacent chair, he raised to his lips a straight little soprano sax, the once-despised symbol of Mickey Mouse band leaders. — Albert Goldman, Freak Show, p. 285, 1963
- All that pedantic Mickey Mouse chitchat. — Richard Farina, Been Down So Long, p. 220, 1966
- All they know is that it feels good to swing to way-out body-rhythms instead of dragassing across the dance floor like zombies to the dead beat of mind-smothered Mickey-Mouse music. — Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice, p. 81, 1968
- This Mickey Mouse jive with the pussy and the coke and the booze don’t mean nothin’. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 21, 1975
- [W]e were required to tally up our individual sales and purchases on an ordinary Mickey Mouse adding machine and see if they matched those of the boss computer. — Terry Southern, Now Dig This, p. 32, 1975
- “My last tour was better though, not so much mickeymouse.” — Michael Herr, Dispatches, p. 29, 1977
- What is this Mickey Mouse shit? — Full Metal Jacket, 1987
- [N]o fucker ever died from a diazzy overdose mun. Methadone aye, but not diazepam. Mickey Mouse downer, diazepam. — Niall Griffiths, Sheepshagger, p. 108, 2001
- outmoded, old-fashioned or unnecessarily conventional US
- I said something about going steady being a Mickey Mouse institution. — Lawrence Block, Chip Harrison Scores Again, p. 240, 1971
- excellent AUSTRALIA, 1973
Rhyming slang for GROUSE- The real mickey mouse direct drives have been costing anything from $500 to $850 in the shops, restricting them to a small section of the market. — National Times, p. 48, 16 June 1979
- Despite the television ecstasies of Mr May of the ABC, outsiders have not been slow to point out that Australia is inexorably becoming one of the Mickey Mouse sporting nations of the world. — Weekend Australian, p. 14, 16 October 1982
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