mo

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Letters
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Pronunciation
/ˈməʊ/
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/ˈməʊ/ · /məʊ/(UK) · /moʊ/(US)

Definition of mo

24 senses · 6 parts of speech · etymology included

name

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Missouri: a state of the United States.
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name

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Missouri: a state of the United States.
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Philip Morris Companies, now Altria Group.
  3. (Judaism, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Modern Orthodox.
  4. A diminutive of the male given names Mohammed, Moses, Maurice, Morris, Moritz, or Mortimer.
  5. A diminutive of the female given names Marjorie, Maureen, Moira, or Monica.
  6. A surname from Chinese.
  7. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang)Clipping of Moët.
    “Watch when I see you, I miss you a lot, yo / How about a nightcap, maybe a bottle of Mo'?”

noun

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of modus operandi.
    “The Big Man is everywhere. He knows my M.O.!!!!”
    “This was her apartment, I gathered, and he was living here. That was his MO. He would leech onto some girl and eventually move into her home.”
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of money order.
  3. (UK, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of medical officer.
  4. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of molecular orbital.
  5. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, uncountable)Clipping of moment.
    “Hang on a mo!”
  6. (slang)A homosexual.
  7. (Australia, New-Zealand, colloquial)A moustache.
  8. (slang)A molester.
    “The Idaho prison is full of cho-mos (child molesters), mos (molesters), and all types of sexual predators that have engaged in some type of abnormal sexual acts.”
  9. (slang)A moron.
    “Hey, you mo! Hey, you mo! Hey, you mo! Hey, you mo!”

adj

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable)Initialism of mesio-occlusal.
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable)Initialism of magnetooptical.
  3. (archaic, dialectal, not-comparable)Greater in amount, quantity, or number (of discrete objects, as opposed to more, which was applied to substances)
    “With that ran there a route of ratones at ones, And smale mys myd hem, mo then a thousande”
    “Nether durste eny man from that daye forth axe hym eny moo questions.”
  4. (alt-of, alternative, dialectal, not-comparable)Alternative form of mo' (“more”).
    “Yo, you got mo chips?”
    “I guess this mean mo money, mo problems for you?”

adv

  1. (not-comparable, obsolete)To a greater degree.
    “When he had ſaied no: what (ſaid Ariſtippus) is it ſhame to ſaile in a Shippe, that hath afoꝛetymes caried a great nomber mo: […]”
  2. (dialectal, not-comparable)Further, longer.

symbol

  1. month
    “12 yr 4 mo 17 d”

num

  1. The cardinal number occurring after el gro el do el (↋↋↋) and before mo one (1001) in a duodecimal system. Written 1000, decimal value 1728.

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Etymology

Transliteration of Chinese 莫 (mò).

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