MO
See also: Appendix:Variations of "mo"
Translingual edit
Etymology edit
Symbol edit
MO
English edit
Proper noun edit
MO
- Abbreviation of Missouri, a state of the United States of America.
- (stock ticker symbol) Abbreviation of Philip Morris Companies (now Altria Group).
- (Judaism) Initialism of Modern Orthodox.
Noun edit
MO (countable and uncountable, plural MOs)
- Initialism of modus operandi.
- 1981, James Ellroy, Brown's Requiem, page 207:
- The Big Man is everywhere. He knows my M.O.!!!!
- (banking) Initialism of money order.
- (military, UK) Initialism of medical officer.
- (chemistry) Initialism of molecular orbital.
Adjective edit
MO (not comparable)
- (dentistry) Initialism of mesio-occlusal.
- (computing) Initialism of magnetooptical.
Further reading edit
- Jonathon Green (2024) “m.o. n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang