English

Noun

moonbat ‎(plural moonbats)

1. (pejorative) A liberal (someone with a left-wing ideology).
   • 2005, Malkin, Michele, Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild, Washington, DC: Regnery, ISBN 9781596981874, page 108:

     So, what do moonbat professors do when they're not attacking military recruiters, the Bush administration, cameramen, and College Republicans?

   • 2006 May 11, Boehlert, Eric, Lapdogs: How the Press Lay Down for the Bush White House, New York: Free Press, ISBN 9780743299169, page 216:

     As nervous Bush supporters watched the president's approval rating slide, they unleashed their wrath on Sheehan, labeling the mourning mom a “crazy,” “anti-Semite,” “left-wing moonbat,” “crackpot” whose behavior bordered on “treasonous” and who was nothing more than a “hysterical noncombatant.”

   • 2009 October 13, Eubanks, Steve, Downforce, New York: Harper, ISBN 9780061743467, page 255:

     Your job is to separate the media from the moonbats before some industrious cub reporter starts looking into our land deal.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:moonbat.

Synonyms

• leftard (derogatory)
• libtard (derogatory)

Derived terms

• moonbattery

Coordinate terms

• wingnut

References

1. ↑ Wingnut in the Word Detective
2. ↑ "barking moonbat" in the Samizdata glossary

External links

• The Samizdata glossary