moon over

phrasal verb

mooned over; mooning over; moons over

: to spend too much time thinking about or looking at (someone or something that one admires or wants very much)

All the girls in the class are mooning over the handsome new teacher.

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More than a hundred million people in the United States had watched the Super Bowl the season before last, back when Swift was still mooning over slim British men. —

Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2024 The red sun and moon over northeastern U.S. states this week came with a series of air quality alerts that impacted millions of people on Tuesday, some living as far west as Ohio and Missouri and as far south as North Carolina. —

Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 6 June 2023 Astronomers continued to discover more moons over the centuries. —

Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2023 Indeed, by giving Wendy a more active part in the heroics indicative of the title change, this movie features more female empowerment all around, dispensing with much of the petty jealousy and girlish mooning over Peter that didn’t age particularly well during the last 70 years. —

Brian Lowry, CNN, 28 Apr. 2023