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mod1, Mod /mɒd $ mɑːd/ noun [countable]  British EnglishSSY a member of a group of young people in Britain in the 1960s who wore a particular type of neat clothes, listened to soul music, and rode motor scooters 摩登派成员〔指英国20世纪60年代穿着整洁时髦、听灵乐并骑小型摩托车的青年〕 → rocker

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mod• Many were living in sixteenth and seventeenth century cottages with hardly any mod cons.• These styles can be seen in the pictures of mod rallies at seaside towns.• Money saved by not fitting the parts road bikes require has been spent on the race mods.• Meeting It, Sue Small, Blackheath retired mod, got hooked on it.• The general effect resembled the mods of 1964/65 with their preppy look.• The mods eventually split into two distinct groups.• The mods had soul, the Motown sound and beat music.mod2 verb [transitive] informal  nto change something, especially software —modding noun [uncountable]nMod1 /mɒd $ mɑːd/ noun  na member of a group of young people in the UK in the 1960s and 1970s, who followed a fashion for neat clothes, soul music, and parkas (=a long coat with a hood). Mods rode scooters and often went in large groups to seaside towns to have fights with rockers on bank holidays.nMod2 noun  na Gaelic festival of music and poetry held in Scotland every yearnMOD /ˌem əʊ ˈdiː/  nthe ministry of defence

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mod /mɒd $ mɑːd/ noun [countable]
British English a member of a group of young people in Britain in the 1960s who wore a particular type of neat clothes, listened to soul music, and drove motor scooters ⇨ rocker

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Mod¹ /mɒd $ mɑːd/ noun
a member of a group of young people in the UK in the 1960s and 1970s, who followed a fashion for neat clothes, soul music, and parkas (=a long coat with a hood). Mods rode scooters and often went in large groups to seaside towns to have fights with rockers on bank holidays.

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Mod² noun
a Gaelic festival of music and poetry held in Scotland every year

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ˌMinistry of Deˈfence, the abbreviation, MOD
the British government department that is responsible for the UK's armed forces. The minister in charge of this department is the Secretary of State for Defence.

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MOD /ˌem əʊ ˈdiː/
abbreviation for Ministry of Defence

modBrE /mɒd/ 🔊NAmE /mɑːd/ 🔊 nouna member of a group of young people, especially in Britain in the 1960s, who wore neat, fashionable clothes and rode motor scooters 摩登派青年（尤指 20 世纪 60 年代英国的穿着时髦整洁、骑小型摩托车的青年）  ➡  compare rocker (3)

MODBrE /ˌem əʊ ˈdiː/ 🔊NAmE /ˌem oʊ ˈdiː/ 🔊 abbreviationMinistry of Defence (the government department in Britain that is responsible for defence) （英国）国防部