Seems to have been taken from Caribbean English, in which it is (was) used to refer to a gullible person. The word has since undergone several changes in meaning, so that it now depends on which sense of the word the speaker has been exposed to. It was popularized in Scorsese's "Mean Streets" (1972), but when Johnny calls Jimmy a mook, it causes confusion: "Nobody knows what a mook is" even appears in the script.
mook (n.)
"This type of student, rigorously following a daily assignment schedule and graphing his grades on the wall, is a never common but somewhat frequent phenomenon. The ‘grind’, ‘mook’, or ‘weenie’ superficially seems to satisfy the demands of Yale, but in many ways he is not alive to the spirit of the place."
--Yale Alumni Magazine, Jan. 21, 1958
"Call them knuckleheads or young white guys; Spin magazine lambasted them with the term ‘mooks’, a label that has since been picked up as a badge of honor."
--NY Times Magazine, Aug. 6, 2000: 39/2
"This type of student, rigorously following a daily assignment schedule and graphing his grades on the wall, is a never common but somewhat frequent phenomenon. The ‘grind’, ‘mook’, or ‘weenie’ superficially seems to satisfy the demands of Yale, but in many ways he is not alive to the spirit of the place."
--Yale Alumni Magazine, Jan. 21, 1958
"Call them knuckleheads or young white guys; Spin magazine lambasted them with the term ‘mooks’, a label that has since been picked up as a badge of honor."
--NY Times Magazine, Aug. 6, 2000: 39/2
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Get the mook-life mug.1. A loosely adhered-to marketing term used to refer to an adolescent to twentysomething male who shows off and makes a scene of himself. A mook personifies the adoption of trends for the sake of commercialism and the mindless celebration of childish masculinity. Particularly featured on mtv
2. That guy at your high school who used to be really popular when he was an underclassman, but now he sleeps with popular girls to get attention.
2. That guy at your high school who used to be really popular when he was an underclassman, but now he sleeps with popular girls to get attention.
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A phrase created to mock asian languages. Normally said as if a question. However, it can be used in an infinite number of situations and can either be a springboard from which to launch into a longer tirade of fake asian gibberish.
azngoldfrmr193:Ni Hao Ma?
jewboycrakajak:.....
azngoldfrmr193:Wu An. Hen Gao Xing Yu Xian Ni. Fan-Dian Zai Na-Li.
jewboycrakajak:.....
jewboycrakajak:mook mook tai lo?
azngoldfrmr193:..... goo by
jewboycrakajak:.....
azngoldfrmr193:Wu An. Hen Gao Xing Yu Xian Ni. Fan-Dian Zai Na-Li.
jewboycrakajak:.....
jewboycrakajak:mook mook tai lo?
azngoldfrmr193:..... goo by
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