Usually means: Face perceived in the moon.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word man in the moon:

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  1. man in the moon: Merriam-Webster
  2. the man in the moon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. man in the moon: Collins English Dictionary
  4. the man in the moon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. man in the moon: Wiktionary
  6. man in the moon: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. man in the moon: Dictionary.com
  8. Man in the Moon (L.A. Guns album), Man in the Moon (Nektar album), Man in the Moon (disambiguation), Man in the Moon (event), Man in the Moon (film), Man in the Moon, Man in the moon, The Man in the Moon (film), The Man in the Moon (novel), The Man in the Moon, The man in the moon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Man in the Moon: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  10. man in the moon: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. man in the moon, man in the moon: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Definitions from Wiktionary (man in the moon)

noun:  An image of a man perceived in the dark maria (plains or "seas") and light highlands or other features of the Moon, originally regarded as a man with a burden on his back or accompanied by a small dog, and now more commonly as a man's face in the full moon or his profile in a crescent moon; hence, an imaginary man thought to be living on the Moon.
noun:  (obsolete, figurative) An imaginary person; also (UK politics, slang), an unidentified person who illegally pays for election expenditure and electors' expenses, as long as the latter vote as the person wishes.

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