Mobot

Mobot

See also: mobot

English

Etymology

Blend of Mo (“nickname for Mohamed”) +‎ robot (“dance move”)

Noun

Mobot

1. A celebratory dance where the arms and hands form an "M"-shape over the head, associated with runner Mo Farah.
   • 2013, Michael Hurley, Mo Farrah, Raintree →ISBN, page 22

     In 2012, the Foundation started up the “do the Mobot” campaign, encouraging everyone to do a Mobot dance in order to raise £100,000 towards the Mo Farah orphanage & sports academy.

   • 2013, Martin Power, The Life of Blur, Music Sales Group →ISBN

     A rare break in proceedings before 'Song 2' brought yet another surprise, as Damon successfully got an entire field of revellers to do the 'Mobot' in honour of track star and double-goldwinning medallist Mo Farah.

   • 2014, Clare Balding, Walking Home: My Family and Other Rambles, Penguin UK →ISBN

     I felt like a balloon, floating above all this mayhem, looking down on someone who looked like me doing the Mobot with Mo Farah (he thanked me for inventing it, by the way).