mod, modern, modernistic
(adjective) relating to a recently developed fashion or style; “their offices are in a modern skyscraper”; “tables in modernistic designs”
mod
(noun) a British teenager or young adult in the 1960s; noted for their clothes consciousness and opposition to the rockers
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Abbreviations.
mod (countable and uncountable, plural mods)
(uncountable) An unconventionally modern style of fashionable dress originating in England in the 1960s, characterized by ankle-length black trenchcoats and sunglasses.
(UK) 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.
(informal) A modification.
(video games) An end user-created package containing modifications to the look or behaviour of a video game.
(Internet) A moderator, for example on a discussion forum.
(computing, informal) A module (file containing a tracker music sequence).
(rock climbing) A moderately difficult route.
(in the plural, Oxford University, informal) Moderations: university examinations generally taken in the first year.
(mathematics, programming) Abbreviation of modulus.
Synonyms: %, modulus
(statistics) Abbreviation of mode.
In video gaming, mods are created by end users, whereas such content by the game creators would be called an expansion pack.
mod (third-person singular simple present mods, present participle modding, simple past and past participle modded)
(transitive, informal) To modify (an object) from its original condition, typically for the purposes of individualizing and/or enhancing the performance of the object.
Synonyms: trick, trick out
(transitive, Internet, informal) To moderate; to silence or punish (a rule-breaking user) on a forum, especially when done by a moderator.
mod (not comparable)
Abbreviation of moderate.
mod (plural mods)
A festival of Scottish Gaelic song, arts and culture, akin to the Welsh eisteddfod.
• -dom, DOM, Dom, Dom., ODM, dom, dom.
MOD
(British, UK politics) Ministry of Defence.
MOD (not comparable)
(dentistry) Initialism of mesio-occlusal-distal.
• -dom, DOM, Dom, Dom., ODM, dom, dom.
MoD
(UK, UK politics) Alternative form of MOD (“Ministry of Defence”)
• -dom, DOM, Dom, Dom., ODM, dom, dom.
Source: Wiktionary
15 April 2025
(adjective) marked by or promising bad fortune; “their business venture was doomed from the start”; “an ill-fated business venture”; “an ill-starred romance”; “the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons”- W.H.Prescott
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
