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Definition: Mods |
ModsNoun1. A youth subculture that began in London in the early 1960s; a working-class movement with highly stylized dress and short hair; listened to rhythm and blues music and travelled on motor scooters. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Literature | Mods In Oxford a contracted form of moderations. The three necessary examinations in Oxford are the Smalls, the Mods, and the Greats. No one can take a class till he has passed the Mods. There are no Mods at Cambridge. "While I was reading for Mods I was not so unsettled in my mind."- Grant Allen: The Backslider, part iii. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Mods and the Rockers were two British youth movements of the early 1960s. Gangs of modss and rockerss fighting in 1964 sparked a moral panic about British youth.The Rockers adopted a macho biker gang image; the Mods adopted a pose of scooter-driving "sophistication".
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| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
Mods | English | Modern Jazz | Social Sciences |
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Crosswords: Mods |
| Specialty definitions using "mods": Little-Go. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Dom kallar oss mods (1968) La Battaglia dei mods (1966) Mods and Rockers (1964) | |
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| "Mods" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mods" is used about 66 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 66 | 41,290 |
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Beginning with "mods": mods-and-rockers. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
half life mods | 783 | quake 3 mods | 170 |
mods morrowind | 628 | freelancer mods | 162 |
diablo 2 mods | 558 | red alert 2 mods | 161 |
1942 battlefield mods | 552 | star craft mods | 156 |
city mods vice | 492 | 3 mods warcraft | 136 |
mods | 463 | faction mods red | 133 |
ghost recon mods | 414 | command conquer general mods | 120 |
gta3 mods | 364 | mods renegade | 113 |
case mods | 346 | jedi mods outcast | 112 |
max mods payne | 313 | mods raven shield | 105 |
counter strike mods | 297 | 2 diablo lod mods | 100 |
city gta mods vice | 289 | homeworld mods | 96 |
x box mods | 278 | diablo ii mods | 92 |
dungeon mods siege | 238 | cb mods | 92 |
mods mohaa | 224 | honor medal mods | 89 |
pc mods | 221 | general mods | 88 |
swat 3 mods | 200 | cs mods | 86 |
computer mods | 195 | 3 auto grand mods theft | 83 |
unreal tournament mods | 192 | radio mods | 79 |
3 gta mods | 189 | emule mods | 79 |
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| Language | Translations for "mods"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | Halbstarken. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | odsmay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: doms. | |
| Words within the letters "d-m-o-s" | |
-1 letter: dom, dos, mod, mos, ods, oms, sod, som. | |
-2 letters: do, mo, od, om, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-m-o-s" | |
+1 letter: demos, domes, dooms, dorms, doums, misdo, modes, modus, molds, moods, sodom. | |
+2 letters: damson, demobs, demons, dogmas, dolmas, dorsum, doumas, duomos, idioms, iodism, models, modems, modest, modish, monads, mondes, mondos, mopeds, moshed, mossed, moulds, mounds, moused, nomads, odeums, odiums, osmund, seldom, smoked, sodium, sodoms, sodomy, wisdom. | |
+3 letters: almonds, amadous, amidols, bosomed, bossdom, bromids, comedos, condoms, daemons, daimios, daimons, daimyos, damosel, damsons, defoams, deforms, demoses, demotes, desmoid, deworms, diatoms, dimouts, disomic, distome, dodgems, dodoism, dogdoms, dolmans, dolmens, domains, domines, dominos, dormers, dormins, dromons, dynamos, emerods, emodins, endmost, fandoms, goddams, idolism, imposed, iodisms, maduros, masoned, mastoid, meadows, medicos, meloids, methods, midmost, midsole, mikados, milords, miscode, misdoer, misdoes, misdone, misshod, misword, moderns, modesty, modiste, modules, modulus, molders, monades, moseyed, moussed, mucoids, nimrods, oedemas, osmosed, osmunda, osmunds, podiums, pomades, radomes, ramrods, randoms, remolds, rodsman, rodsmen, samoyed, selfdom, serfdom, shahdom, sigmoid, simioid, smocked, smolder, sodiums, someday, stardom, stomped, stormed, tomcods, tsardom, unmolds, vamosed, wadmols, wisdoms. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 6F 64 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- --- -.. ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01101111 01100100 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M o d s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 006F 0064 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47817085 |
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English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | englisch |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Abbreviations 10. Acronyms 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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