Crossword clues for shmoo
shmoo
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
(plural shmoon), comic strip creature, 1948; see schmuck. It was a U.S. fad for a couple of years after its debut.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A fictional animal created by cartoonist (w: Al Capp) 2 (context biology English) A projection from yeast in response to mating pheromones
Wikipedia
The shmoo (plural: shmoon, also shmoos) is a comic strip creature created by Al Capp (1909–79); the character first appeared in its classic comic strip Li'l Abner on August 31, 1948. __TOC__
Shmoo or Schmoo may refer to:
- Schmoo, flying monster in the video game Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
- Shmoo, cartoon creature from Li'l Abner
- Shmoos, nickname of the Cosmic Ray Detection Units of CHICOS (California High School Cosmic Ray Observatory)
- Shmoo plot, in electrical engineering, a graphical display of the response of a component or system
- Shmoo, member of the Shmoo Group, a security practitioners' group
- Schmoo - colloquial, Australian slang meaning a women's pubis or the general area of the pubis.
- Shmoo, projection from yeast in response to mating pheromones
- Shmoo, term used in economic theory for a generic product that reproduces itself (as opposed to Widgets, which require resources and active production)
- Shmoo, method of preparing dead birds as specimens for bird collections
Usage examples of "shmoo".
New Haven named Alfred Caplin, had gone on to meet with the kind of success they had all believed they would findand the father of the Shmoo had spent only two nights there before moving on to better lodgings across town.
Yet another conference was held yesterday between Australian scientists and the robots, familiarly known as Shmoos, after comic artist Al Capp's remarkably generous characters, which they resemble in shape.
French switched on a monitor and they sat to watch the opening in the Rock, waiting intently for the Shmoos to emerge.
Bobbing and weaving gracefully, the Shmoos traversed the half kilometer between the trailer and the Rock, three abreast, reminding Arthur of gun-slingers approaching a showdown.
In the sunlit glare outside, the Shmoos ascended a wide ramp and floated into the trailer, arraying themselves on the opposite side of the conference table.
He spread the pictures before the Shmoos, who made no apparent move to examine them.
They scrambled outside the trailer and followed a raggedly organized team of scientists and soldiers down the path to where the Shmoos had last been seen.
Martin was instantly reminded of the Australian robots, shmoos they had been named.