mo
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/ˈməʊ/
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/ˈməʊ/ · /məʊ/(UK) · /moʊ/(US)
Definition of mo
24 senses · 6 parts of speech · etymology included
name
- (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Missouri: a state of the United States.
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name
- (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Missouri: a state of the United States.
- (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Philip Morris Companies, now Altria Group.
- (Judaism, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Modern Orthodox.
- A diminutive of the male given names Mohammed, Moses, Maurice, Morris, Moritz, or Mortimer.
- A diminutive of the female given names Marjorie, Maureen, Moira, or Monica.
- A surname from Chinese.
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(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
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(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.”
- (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of money order.
- (UK, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of medical officer.
- (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of molecular orbital.
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(abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, uncountable)Clipping of moment.
“Hang on a mo!”
- (slang)A homosexual.
- (Australia, New-Zealand, colloquial)A moustache.
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(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.”
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(slang)A moron.
“Hey, you mo! Hey, you mo! Hey, you mo! Hey, you mo!”
adj
- (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable)Initialism of mesio-occlusal.
- (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable)Initialism of magnetooptical.
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(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.”
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(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
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(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: […]”
- (dialectal, not-comparable)Further, longer.
symbol
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month
“12 yr 4 mo 17 d”
num
- 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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