/ˈmoŋ.ɡo/
- New-York-City, uncountableStill-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 rehabi”
“[Mongo] refers to trash, or more specifically, to treasure found in trash: books, artifacts, furniture, even food. Ted Botha's book explores a whole culture, and various subcultures, that revolve arou”
“Loading out on house-to-house can take many hours, but such routes have other perks, especially for someone who likes to mongo. As a noun, “mongo” is Sanitation slang for treasure salvaged from the tr”
- uncountableA manner of pushing oneself on a skateboard with one's front foot as opposed to one's back foot.
- abbreviation, alt-of, clippingClipping of mongoloid.
- Philippines, uncountablemung bean
- abbreviation, acronym, alt-ofAcronym of my own NGO.
- A Bantu language spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Formsmongos(plural) · mungo(alternative) · monggo(alternative) · MONGOs(plural)