MO
See also: Appendix:Variations of "mo"
Translingual
Etymology
Derived from English Macao.
Symbol
MO
- (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Macau.
- Synonym: MAC (alpha-3)
English
Proper noun
MO
- Abbreviation of Missouri, a state of the United States of America.
- (stock ticker symbol) Abbreviation of Philip Morris Companies (now Altria Group).
- (Judaism) Initialism of Modern Orthodox.
Noun
MO (countable and uncountable, plural MOs)
- Initialism of modus operandi.
- 1981, James Ellroy, Brown's Requiem, page 207:
- The Big Man is everywhere. He knows my M.O.!!!!
- 2022, Ling Ma, “Oranges”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:
- This was her apartment, I gathered, and he was living here. That was his MO. He would leech onto some girl and eventually move into her home.
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- (banking) Initialism of money order.
- (military, UK) Initialism of medical officer.
- (chemistry) Initialism of molecular orbital.
Alternative forms
- m.o., M.O.
Adjective
MO (not comparable)
- (dentistry) Initialism of mesio-occlusal.
- (computing) Initialism of magnetooptical.
Further reading
- Jonathon Green (2023), “m.o. n.”, in Green's Dictionary of Slang
Anagrams
- O&M, O.M., OM, om