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mongos

mongos is the plural of mongo.

Meaning of mongo

Noun (1)

mongo (uncountable)

  1. (New-York-City) 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...1984, [NYC] Issue 1-6, page 51
  2. A manner of pushing oneself on a skateboard with one's front foot as opposed to one's back foot.
    • push mongo

Noun (2)

mongo (uncountable)

  1. (Philippines) A mung bean.

See all 4 meanings of mongo

Noun capitalized: MONGOs

MONGOs

  1. (plural) plural of MONGO

Questions about mongos

What is mongos the plural of?
Mongos is the plural of mongo.
What part of speech is mongos?
Mongos is a noun.

Words near mongos in the dictionary

  1. mongongos
  2. mongoos
  3. mongoose
  4. mongooselike
  5. mongooses
  6. mongos
  7. Mongpong
  8. mongra
  9. mongrel
  10. mongreldom
  11. mongrelhood

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mongos (page history and authors); MONGOs (page history and authors); mongo (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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