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mongo¹

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noun

  1. New York City, uncountable 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 furnishing
  2. uncountable A manner of pushing oneself on a skateboard with one's front foot as opposed to one's back foot. push mongo

mongo²

noun mongos

  1. abbreviation, clipping Clipping of mongoloid

mongo³

  • /ˈmoŋ.ɡo/ Philippines

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Spanish mongo . Compare Tagalog munggo. Doublet of mung.

noun mungo · monggo

  1. Philippines, uncountable A mung bean.

    Similar: mongo bean, green mongo

MONGO⁴

noun MONGOs

  1. abbreviation, acronym Acronym of my own NGO

Mongo⁵

proper noun

  1. A Bantu language spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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"mongo." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/mongo. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

mongo. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/mongo

Chicago

"mongo." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/mongo.

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@misc{mongo_2026,
  title = {mongo},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mongo},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}