Definition of MOONBAT

moonbat

Meanings

Plural: moonbats

Noun

  • A liberal (someone with a left-wing ideology).

Adj

  • (of ideas) Absurd or obviously untruthful.

Origin / Etymology

From moon + bat, first used in the 1940s by the science-fiction writer Robert Heinlein, then used in the term “barking moonbat” coined in 1999 by Perry de Havilland of “The Libertarian Samizdata”, a right-libertarian weblog. This originally referred to both left-wing and right-wing crazy people. Sometimes wrongly claimed to be a corruption of Monbiot (from George Monbiot, British environmentalist and Guardian columnist).

Synonyms

leftard, libtard

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