mod

An unconventionally modern style of fashionable dress originating in England in the 1960s, characterized by ankle-length black trenchcoats and sunglasses.

Adjective abbreviation, alt of

  1. Abbreviation of moderate.

Origin

Abbreviations.

Adjective slang

  1. Crazy, insane.
    • 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 - 2022 November 28, @187Caution, Twitter, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2024:
    • What he did was actually mod. Man fuck cancer for real - 2023 March 10, “original trapstar, caught a leg shot and still took it OT til death”, in Reddit, r/Torontology, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2024:

    Synonyms: 5150 bananas barking barking mad buggish buggy bughouse barmy batchy batpoop bats batty bonkers bread baskets cracked crackers cra-cra cray cray-cray crazed crazy crazy as a bedbug crazy as a cootie crazy as a cootie bug

Origin

Probably reflecting a Jamaican pronunciation of mad.

Forms

modder moddest

Noun Entry 3

  1. An unconventionally modern style of fashionable dress originating in England in the 1960s, characterized by ankle-length black trenchcoats and sunglasses.
  2. 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.
    • 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...
  3. Clipping of modification.
  4. An end user-created package containing modifications to the look or behaviour of a video game.
    • 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...

    Coordinate Terms: add-on DLC expansion pack

  5. A moderator, for example on a discussion forum.
    • 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. - 2019 October 23, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “How...

    1. (Internet slang, originally Twitch-speak, humorous, in the plural) Used to express a wish of removal or, often hyperbolic, harm (as opposed to a literal request to moderators).

      • Mods, kill this guy with hammers.
  6. A module (file containing a tracker music sequence).
    • I'd like to convert some of the arch^([sic]) mods back into Amiga mods since I don't have the original Amiga versions. - 1992, Jordan K. Hubbard, “How to convert Amiga mods to Arch?”, in comp.sys.acorn (Usenet):
    • These mods, while usually having the distinctive bleep and beep quality of transistor-generated tones, are often astonishingly creative and rich in expressive nuances. - 2003, Rene T. A. Lysloff; Leslie C. Gay, Jr.,...
  7. A moderately difficult route.
  8. Moderations: university examinations generally taken in the first year.
    • 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. - 1891 November, S. E....
  9. Abbreviation of modulus.

    Synonyms: % modulus

  10. Abbreviation of mode.
  11. Abbreviation of moderate.
    • Dems and GOPers Treat Their Mods Differently [title] - 2009 April 29, Marc Ambinder, “Dems and GOPers Treat Their Mods Differently”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 10 May 2021, retrieved 25 Mar 2024:

Forms

mods

Derived

conversion mod minimod modbot modchip modette modmail modpack modster power mod supermod total conversion mod

Noun Entry 4

  1. A festival of Scottish Gaelic song, arts and culture, akin to the Welsh eisteddfod.

Origin

Etymology tree Scottish Gaelic mòdbor. English mod Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic mòd.

Forms

mods

Verb

  1. To modify (an object) from its original condition, typically to individualize and/or enhance the performance of the object.
    • His friends were particularly impressed with the way he modded his Ruckus.

    Synonyms: trick trick out

  2. To install or create a mod.
    • Learning Java is what got me into modding Minecraft.
  3. To moderate; to silence or punish (a rule-breaking user) on a forum, especially when done by a moderator.
    • Don't break the rules or you'll be modded.
    • I used to mod that forum.

Forms

mods modding modded

Derived

case mod demod mod con moddable modder mod man mod pack pod mod pot mod unmodded