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moop

moop verb: to keep company, closely associate with.

Verb

moop (third-person singular simple present moops, present participle mooping, simple past and past participle mooped)

  1. (Scotland) To keep company, closely associate with.

Noun capitalized: MOOP

MOOP (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, acronym, Burning Man slang) Acronym of matter out of place; litter.
    • These fences catch any MOOP (“matter out of place”) that blows out of peoples' camps, where it can be harvested and packed out—leave no trace—and all that.2013, Cory Doctorow, Homeland, Tor Books, →ISBN
    • After days of rain and mud, blocked exits and postponed parties, the last of Burning Man’s crowds trudged out of the Nevada desert on Wednesday morning. The “moop” remained. That is Burning Man argot for rubbish, short for “matter out of place”: a galaxy of jetsam scattered across the muddy alkali...2023 September 6, Finn-Olaf Jones, Jack Healy, “Burning Man’s Muddy Aftermath: A Desert Full of ‘Moop’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Forms of moop

Verb
third-person singular presentmoops
present participlemooping
past participlemooped
pastmooped
Noun
alternative formmoop

Questions about moop

What does moop mean?
Moop means to keep company, closely associate with.
What part of speech is moop?
Moop can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of moop?
The past tense of moop is mooped.

Words near moop in the dictionary

  1. moonwatching
  2. moonwise
  3. moonwort
  4. moonworts
  5. moony
  6. moop
  7. moor
  8. moor blackbird
  9. moor buzzard
  10. moor buzzards
  11. moor grass

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