mono
/ˈmɑ.noʊ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.53 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A bicycle or motorcycle trick where the front wheel is lifted off the ground while riding.
Australian usage; British usage; Countable; Slang; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "plum mono"
- "The excellent on-screen display of italics, superscripts and subscripts, and other niceties available on the color screen now display on mono monitors, but with the inherently superior text font of the mono mode."
- "People who do wish to be recognizable as trans or bi are often coercively passed off as cis or mono anyway."
- "That is, establishing as it does a replacement binary (mono versus bi, rather than hetero versus homo) it functions to erase lesbian and gay specificity. In turn, this fails to consider, and even elides, important structural inequities between the hetero- and homosexual categories. The difficulty of establishing bisexual legitimacy in a discursive context of oppositional categories was acknowledged by a number of participants. For some, invoking the mono/bi dichotomy affords bisexuality [...]"
- "Because many in the audience were very close to one of the speakers, the DJ decided to play the music in mono."
- "For some monos, there are no acceptable mono—poly solutions as far as they are concerned."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈmɑ.noʊ/
- British English: /ˈmɒn.əʊ/
Usage
- Australian usage
- British usage
- Countable
- Slang
- Uncountable
- Informal