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mom

[mom]
noun Informal.

Origin:
short for momma

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Mom is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Example Sentences
  • Hers is the guilty pleasure of the traveling working mom.
  • Many college students have bills that mom and dad don't pay.
  • When mom and dad are both working, a night at the movies might seem grand.
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m.o.m.

middle of month.
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mom (mɒm)
 
n
chiefly (US), (Canadian) an informal word for mother

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Word Origin & History

mom
1894, Amer.Eng., see mamma. Adjectival phrase mom and pop dates from 1951.
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
MOM
  1. Militia of Montana

  2. milk of magnesia

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