[alsom- m-]Slang oversimplified, shallow, insignificant, etc.: a Mickey Mouse college course
Origin of Mickey Mouse
from a trademark associated, association with a cartoon character created by Walt DisneyMickey Mouse
Mickey MouseWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Mickey Mouse
adjective
Slang- Unimportant; trivial: “It's a Mickey Mouse operation compared to what goes on in Lyons or Paris” ( Jack Higgins )
- Intellectually unchallenging; simple: His Mickey Mouse assignments soon bored the students.
Origin of Mickey Mouse
After the cartoon character Mickey Mouse , created by Walt DisneyTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Proper noun
- The most famous Disney character, an anthropomorphic mouse.
Origin
The adjective sense developed during the Second World War, after a large quantity of low quality counterfeit Mickey Mouse watches flooded the UK.
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