moon over
phrasal verb
mooned over; mooning over; moons over
: to spend too much time thinking about or looking at (someone or something that one admires or wants very much)
All the girls in the class are mooning over the handsome new teacher.
Examples of moon over in a Sentence
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Of course, the most head-turning part of her look was her matching headpiece, which gave the appearance of a crescent moon over her head.
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Kelsie Gibson, People.com, 6 May 2025
Neither reviewers nor audiences are exactly mooning over the film, which boasts a solid but not spectacular 78 percent critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes.
—Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2025
More than a hundred million people in the United States had watched the Super Bowl the season before last, back when Swift was still mooning over slim British men.
—Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2024
The red sun and moon over northeastern U.S. states this week came with a series of air quality alerts that impacted millions of people on Tuesday, some living as far west as Ohio and Missouri and as far south as North Carolina.
—Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 6 June 2023
Astronomers continued to discover more moons over the centuries.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2023
Indeed, by giving Wendy a more active part in the heroics indicative of the title change, this movie features more female empowerment all around, dispensing with much of the petty jealousy and girlish mooning over Peter that didn’t age particularly well during the last 70 years.
—Brian Lowry, CNN, 28 Apr. 2023
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Kelsie Gibson, People.com, 6 May 2025
Neither reviewers nor audiences are exactly mooning over the film, which boasts a solid but not spectacular 78 percent critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes.
—Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2025
More than a hundred million people in the United States had watched the Super Bowl the season before last, back when Swift was still mooning over slim British men.
—Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2024
The red sun and moon over northeastern U.S. states this week came with a series of air quality alerts that impacted millions of people on Tuesday, some living as far west as Ohio and Missouri and as far south as North Carolina.
—Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 6 June 2023
Astronomers continued to discover more moons over the centuries.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2023
Indeed, by giving Wendy a more active part in the heroics indicative of the title change, this movie features more female empowerment all around, dispensing with much of the petty jealousy and girlish mooning over Peter that didn’t age particularly well during the last 70 years.
—Brian Lowry, CNN, 28 Apr. 2023
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“Moon over.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moon%20over. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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