space cadet

noun

, Slang.

1. a person who appears to be in their own world or out of touch with reality.
2. a person who behaves oddly or seems stupefied or remote because of the influence of drugs; druggie.

space cadet

noun

1. slang.
   a person who is eccentric or out of touch with reality, as if affected by drugs

Word History and Origins

Origin of space cadet¹

1950–55, for sense “spaceman trainee”

Example Sentences

He knew the pirate would not take defeat at the hands of a Space Cadet easily.

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But no one had ever remembered a Space Cadet working on the squad, and particularly for six months!

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More than once he had shaken his head in wonder at being a Space Cadet.

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"I'm going to be a Space Cadet when I get old enough," he gulped breathlessly.

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He was a young man wearing the royal-blue uniform of a Space Cadet.

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