Mo
adj, adv, name, noun, num, symbol, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 Initialism of modus operandi. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
"The Big Man is everywhere. He knows my M.O.!!!!"
- 2 Clipping of moment. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, uncountable
"Hang on a mo!"
- 3 A homosexual. slang
- 4 A moustache. Australia, New-Zealand, colloquial
- 5 A molester. slang
"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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- 6 A moron. slang
"Hey, you mo! Hey, you mo! Hey, you mo! Hey, you mo!"
- 7 a polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties; used to strengthen and harden steel wordnet
- 8 Initialism of money order. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 9 an indefinitely short time wordnet
- 10 Initialism of medical officer. UK, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 11 Initialism of molecular orbital. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 1 Initialism of mesio-occlusal. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
- 2 Greater in amount, quantity, or number (of discrete objects, as opposed to more, which was applied to substances) archaic, dialectal, not-comparable
"With that ran there a route of ratones at ones, And smale mys myd hem, mo then a thousande"
- 3 Alternative form of mo' (“more”). alt-of, alternative, dialectal, not-comparable
"Yo, you got mo chips?"
- 4 Initialism of magnetooptical. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
- 1 To a greater degree. not-comparable, obsolete
"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 Further, longer. dialectal, not-comparable
- 1 month
"12 yr 4 mo 17 d"
- 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.
- 1 Abbreviation of Missouri: a state of the United States. abbreviation, alt-of
- 2 A diminutive of the male given names Mohammed, Moses, Maurice, Morris, Moritz, or Mortimer.
- 3 A surname from Chinese.
- 4 Clipping of Moët. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang
"Watch when I see you, I miss you a lot, yo / How about a nightcap, maybe a bottle of Mo'?"
- 5 Abbreviation of Philip Morris Companies, now Altria Group. abbreviation, alt-of
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- 6 A diminutive of the female given names Marjorie, Maureen, Moira, or Monica.
- 7 Initialism of Modern Orthodox. Judaism, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Example
More examples""I know, right? The least they could do is put one on the second floor, too... Wait a mo! Why are you following me!?" "The 'why' is pretty obvious, don't you think? We're going to the bathroom together.""
Etymology
Transliteration of Chinese 莫 (mò).
From Middle English mo, from Old English mā, from Proto-Germanic *maiz, from a comparative form of Proto-Indo-European *meh₂-. Cognate with Swedish mer, Danish mer; and with Irish mó, Albanian më. See also more, most.
Clipping of month.
Clipping of homo, itself a short form of homosexual.
Non-rhotic pronunciation of more. Only coincidentally similar to sense 1 above. Compare fo' (“for; four”), ho (“whore”).
Clipping of moustache.
Clipping.
From mil, by analogy with do and gro.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.