mongo
Collocations
3VERB + MONGO
featuring, furnished, likes
MONGO + NOUN
emperor, lingo, noun, refers, sanit, sanitation, slang, trash
PREP.
in, with
Definitions
noun
Still-usable things salvaged (by sanmen) from garbage.
The old room was furnished in "mongo," Sanit lingo for stuff picked out of the garbage. Mongo-picking, Ukeles explained, "is against the law. The garbage belongs to the City. But until a recent rehabilitation program, which is the first since the Depression, the Sanmen never had their own furnishings." Prior to the show, the Sanmen voted on the worst facilities in the system and Ukeles selected the exhibition mongo from them—shabby, broken-down furniture, walls cluttered with cheap […]
[Mongo] refers to trash, or more specifically, to treasure found in trash: books, artifacts, furniture, even food. Ted Botha's book explores a whole culture, and various subcultures, that revolve around mongo. Those obsessed with mongo often live on the margins, […]
A manner of pushing oneself on a skateboard with one's front foot as opposed to one's back foot.
push mongo
noun
Clipping of mongoloid.
noun
mung bean
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4The old room was furnished in "mongo," Sanit lingo for stuff picked out of the garbage. Mongo-picking, Ukeles explained, "is against the law. The garbage belongs to the City. But until a recent rehabi
Wiktionary[Mongo] refers to trash, or more specifically, to treasure found in trash: books, artifacts, furniture, even food. Ted Botha's book explores a whole culture, and various subcultures, that revolve arou
WiktionaryLoading out on house-to-house can take many hours, but such routes have other perks, especially for someone who likes to mongo. As a noun, “mongo” is Sanitation slang for treasure salvaged from the tr
WiktionaryFlash Gordon with Buster Crabbe is a old sci-fi show featuring the planet Mongo with its Emperor Ming the Merciless.
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