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In leather manufacturing, the shaving of skins with a ‘moon’ or moon-knife. The kid skins are shaved either by “mooning.” … “Mooning” is performed with a round steel, shaped like a plate, and having the center cut out, and a handle placed across the opening. Sci. Amer. Sup., Jan. 24, 1903, p. 22629.
The act of going about as if moonstruck.

It was their unlucky lot to be caught up in a fate worse than death Instead of standing there mooning, help me," he said, handing her a towel I never moon." — deer leap.htm
"This is no time for mooning I was not mooning," Julius said stiffly and turned away from the mirror. — Lynsay Sands - [Argeneau 09] - Vampire, Interrupted
Randy Moss 'mock-mooning at Lambeau Field during the — Out Of Left Field
But back in the mid-'80s, I seem to recall a punky QB named McMahon doing much crazier stuff -- mooning a helicopter, spitting a loogy on a reporter -- and to this day, he lives on as a Chicago cult hero.
Not long ago in Maryland, a judge decided that mooning is "disgusting but legal." — PervScan