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moco

moco noun: rock cavy (Kerodon rupestris).

Noun

moco (plural mocos)

  1. (archaic) Rock cavy (Kerodon rupestris).

Proper noun capitalized: MoCo

MoCo

  1. (US, slang) Montgomery County, Maryland.
    • I'm hoping to answer you and our Silver Spring questioner, who was looking for something this weekend in MoCo.2001 May 24, The Going Out Gurus, “Got Plans?”, in With the Entertainment Guide Staff, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company

Forms of moco

pluralmocos

Origin of moco

Borrowed from Portuguese mocó.

From the two initial syllables, attested as early as 2001.

Phrases with moco

Questions about moco

What does moco mean?
Moco means rock cavy (Kerodon rupestris).
What part of speech is moco?
Moco can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of moco?
The plural of moco is mocos.

Words near moco in the dictionary

  1. mockups
  2. mockworthy
  3. mocky
  4. moclobemide
  5. mocmain
  6. moco
  7. Mocoa
  8. mocock
  9. mococks
  10. mocos
  11. Mocoví

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Adapted from Wiktionary: moco (page history and authors); MoCo (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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