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mego

mego phrase: information that is too technical or difficult for the audience to understand, though they may be too embarrassed to ask questions or admit their confusion. Also the initialism of my eyes glaze over.

Phrase (1)

mego

  1. (Internet) information that is too technical or difficult for the audience to understand, though they may be too embarrassed to ask questions or admit their confusion.
    • MEGO is usually directed at senior management by engineers and contains a high proportion of TLAs.1993 May 10, Eric Raymond, editor, The Jargon File

Phrase (2) capitalized: MEGO

MEGO

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of mego (“my eyes glaze over”).

Also used as

mego is also the initialism of my eyes glaze over.

Forms of mego

alternative formMEGO

Questions about mego

What does mego mean?
Mego means information that is too technical or difficult for the audience to understand, though they may be too embarrassed to ask questions or admit their confusion.
What part of speech is mego?
Mego is a phrase.

Words near mego in the dictionary

  1. meglutol
  2. megmho
  3. megmhos
  4. Megna
  5. Megnas
  6. mego
  7. megodontia
  8. megohm
  9. megohmmeter
  10. megohmmeters
  11. megohms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mego (page history and authors); MEGO (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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