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MOTSS

Specialty Definition: MOTSS

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MOTSS /mots/ or /M-O-T-S-S/ n. [from the 1970 U.S. census forms via Usenet] Member Of The Same Sex, esp. one considered as a possible sexual partner. The gay-issues newsgroup on Usenet is called soc.motss. See MOTOS and MOTAS, which derive from it. See also SO. Source: Jargon File.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: MOTSS

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

MOTSS

EnglishMore Of The Sameold SameoldComputer - (Usenet)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: MOTSS

Specialty definitions using "MOTSS": MOTOS. (references)

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Anagrams: MOTSS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: mosts.

Words within the letters "m-o-s-s-t"

-1 letter: moss, most, mots, sots, toms, toss.

-2 letters: mos, mot, oms, som, sos, sot, tom.

-3 letters: mo, om, os, so, to.

 Words containing the letters "m-o-s-s-t"
 

+1 letter: mysost, smolts, stomas, stomps, storms.

 

+2 letters: cosmist, customs, imposts, jetsoms, mascots, mesteso, missort, missout, misstop, mitoses, mitosis, molests, monists, mostest, mysosts, sitcoms, smaltos, smooths, somites, stemson, utmosts.

 

+3 letters: amitoses, amitosis, amorists, amosites, astomous, atomises, atomisms, atomists, bombasts, combusts, composts, cosmists, costumes, distomes, egotisms, erotisms, exotisms, flotsams, gnomists, impastos, maestoso, maestros, maltoses, massicot, mastoids, mestesos, mestinos, mestizos, midmosts, missorts, missouts, misstops, mistbows, mobsters, modistes, moistens, moistest, monsters, moonsets, mortises, mossiest, mostests, mousiest, mugshots, myositis, myosotes, myosotis, nostrums, oestrums, osteomas, ostmarks, ostomies, outswims, rostrums, scotomas, scrotums, semisoft, sentimos, sfumatos, simonist, smokiest, smoothes, smothers, sodomist, somerset, stardoms, stasimon, stemsons, stoicism, stomachs, stomates, stompers, strumose, strumous, subatoms, symbiots, symptoms, tombless, topmasts, tourisms, transoms, trisomes, tropisms, tsardoms, twasomes, twosomes, utopisms, westmost, zemstvos.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: MOTSS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 4F 54 53 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01001111 01010100 01010011 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#79 &#84 &#83 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 004F 0054 0053 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4749545353

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Abbreviations
3. Acronyms
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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