mod

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Related topics: Youth

mod1, Mod /mɒd $ mɑːd/ noun [countableC]

British EnglishBrESSY a member of a group of young people in Britain in the 1960s who wore a particular type of neat clothes, listened to soul music, and rode motor scooters 摩登派成员〔指英国20世纪60年代穿着整洁时髦、听灵乐并骑小型摩托车的青年〕 → rocker

Examples from the Corpus

mod• Many were living in sixteenth and seventeenth century cottages with hardly any mod cons.• These styles can be seen in the pictures of mod rallies at seaside towns.• Money saved by not fitting the parts road bikes require has been spent on the race mods.• Meeting It, Sue Small, Blackheath retired mod, got hooked on it.• The general effect resembled the mods of 1964/65 with their preppy look.• The mods eventually split into two distinct groups.• The mods had soul, the Motown sound and beat music.

mod2n verb [transitiveT] informal

nto change something, especially software

—modding noun [uncountableU]

Mod1n /mɒd $ mɑːd/ noun

na member of a group of young people in the UK in the 1960s and 1970s, who followed a fashion for neat clothes, soul music, and parkas (=a long coat with a hood). Mods rode scooters and often went in large groups to seaside towns to have fights with rockers on bank holidays.

Mod2n noun

na Gaelic festival of music and poetry held in Scotland every year

MODn /ˌem əʊ ˈdiː/

nthe ministry of defence