Definition of moonwalk
intransitive verb
:to dance by gliding backwards while appearing to make forward walking motions
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With the messenger planet moonwalking across the sky, one step forward can feel like two steps back.
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The assistant paid tribute to the legendary singer by moonwalking to center stage to perform his best impression of Michael Jackson’s killer dance moves.
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The interface was bland and perplexing: a lanky, spike-haired adolescent appeared to moonwalk over chartreuse flatness divided by a geometrically primitive ribbon of blue (the app's crude semblance of the Mississippi).
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Weird Al Yankovic has been lampooning the hits of the day since Michael Jackson was moonwalking.
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First Known Use of moonwalk
1984
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