Pronunciations (8)
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/mɑd/
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/mɒd/
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/mɔd/
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/mɒd/
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[mɔ̟d]
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- New-Zealand
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[mɞ̠d]
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mɑd
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mɒd
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Noun
An unconventionally modern style of fashionable dress originating in England in the 1960s, characterized by ankle-length black trenchcoats and sunglasses.
Usage- Uncountable
A 1960s British person who dressed in such a style and was interested in modernism and the modern music of the time; the opposite of a rocker.
Usage- UK usage
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It was “Mods” against “Rockers” and the police against both as this quiet seaside town of 28,000 exploded with teen‐age violence during the Easter weekend. […] The “Mods” or “Moderns” wear sharply cut Italian‐style suits and long, pointed “winklepicker” shoes. They ride motor scooters fitted with scores of gleaming accesories^([sic]).
An end user-created package containing modifications to the look or behaviour of a video game.
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Since Doom II, thousands of gamers had begun modifying id's products and making them available for free online. Doom fans would communicate entirely over the Internet to create mods of the game—often never even meeting in person or, for that matter, talking on the phone.
A moderator, for example on a discussion forum.
Usage- Internet
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The mods had a difficult time deciding whether to believe a story about a man who was attracted to his girlfriend only when she was grieving her dead sister, but it stayed up.
A moderator, for example on a discussion forum. Used to express a wish of removal or, often hyperbolic, harm (as opposed to a literal request to moderators).
Usage- Internet
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- Humorous
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Mods, kill this guy with hammers.
A module (file containing a tracker music sequence).
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- Informal
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I'd like to convert some of the arch^([sic]) mods back into Amiga mods since I don't have the original Amiga versions.
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These mods, while usually having the distinctive bleep and beep quality of transistor-generated tones, are often astonishingly creative and rich in expressive nuances.
A moderately difficult route.
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Moderations: university examinations generally taken in the first year.
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- in-plural
- Informal
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It will thus be seen that, however well a boy may have been trained at school, his time may be amply occupied in preparing for Mods. during his first year and a half of residence at Oxford.
Verb
To modify (an object) from its original condition, typically to individualize and/or enhance the performance of the object.
Usage- Informal
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His friends were particularly impressed with the way he modded his Ruckus.
To install or create a mod.
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Learning Java is what got me into modding Minecraft.
To moderate; to silence or punish (a rule-breaking user) on a forum, especially when done by a moderator.
Usage- Internet
- Informal
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Don't break the rules or you'll be modded.
I used to mod that forum.
Noun
A festival of Scottish Gaelic song, arts and culture, akin to the Welsh eisteddfod.
Adjective
Crazy, insane.
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Have you listened to Kendrick's new album? It's absolutely mod!
now mans have to beat uruguay to advance, dec 2nd gonna be the moddest day revenge for 2010
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What he did was actually mod. Man fuck cancer for real
Ngl this one of the moddest tweets 😭😭
Why would Drake orchestrate a shooting and blame it on someone not in this country? Are you mod?? Y'all obsessive discoursing has you paranoid.
Adjective
relating to a recently developed fashion or style
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their offices are in a modern skyscraper
tables in modernistic designs
Noun
a British teenager or young adult in the 1960s; noted for their clothes consciousness and opposition to the rockers
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