Mongo
name, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Still-usable things salvaged (by sanmen) from garbage. New-York-City, uncountable
"The old room was furnished in "mongo," Sanit lingo for stuff picked out of the garbage. Mongo-picking, Ukeles explained, "is against the law. The garbage belongs to the City. But until a recent rehabilitation program, which is the first since the Depression, the Sanmen never had their own furnishings." Prior to the show, the Sanmen voted on the worst facilities in the system and Ukeles selected the exhibition mongo from them—shabby, broken-down furniture, walls cluttered with cheap […]"
- 2 Clipping of mongoloid. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
- 3 mung bean Philippines, uncountable
- 4 Acronym of my own NGO. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
- 5 100 mongo equal 1 tugrik in Mongolia wordnet
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- 6 A manner of pushing oneself on a skateboard with one's front foot as opposed to one's back foot. uncountable
"push mongo"
- 1 A Bantu language spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Example
More examples"Flash Gordon with Buster Crabbe is a old sci-fi show featuring the planet Mongo with its Emperor Ming the Merciless."
Etymology
Unknown
Borrowed from Spanish mongo . Compare Tagalog munggo. Doublet of mung.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.