Mook

By Early To Rise | Mon, Mar 2, 2009 |

  

Archives: Word to the Wise

“Mook” (MOOK) is slang for a contemptibly incompetent or insignificant person.

Example (as used by Carl Hiaasen in a New York Times review of Fool’s Paradise by Steven Gaines): “Yet, throughout the eras of Capone, Sinatra, and Madonna, South Beach’s economy has always been juiced by sybaritic hype and a stream of fun-loving, fast-talking mooks.”

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