MOS

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abbreviation

(used in digital communications) member (of the) opposite sex. Also mos

Electronics. metal oxide semiconductor.

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mos.

abbreviation

months.

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How to use MOS in a sentence

But Brooklyn was still Brooklyn, and at 1:45 a.m. a dispatcher could be heard saying on the police radio, “Shots fired by an MOS.”
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Mos and I have had lots of political conversations in our time.
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Dante Terrell Smith, popularly known as Mos Def, is two people right now.
A Great Black Actor Goes Loco|Stanley Crouch|April 10, 2009|DAILY BEAST
I 'uz mos' to de foot er de islan' b'fo' I found' a good place.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete|Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
You'd a ben down dah in de woods widout any dinner, en gittn' mos' drownded, too; dat you would, honey.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete|Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
A harem's a bo'd'n-house, I reck'n. Mos' likely dey has rackety times in de nussery.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete|Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
En didn't I bust up agin a lot er dem islands en have a turrible time en mos' git drownded?
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete|Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
She was tore up a good deal—one en' of her was; but dey warn't no great harm done, on'y our traps was mos' all los'.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete|Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

British Dictionary definitions for MOS

MOS

/ electronics /

abbreviation for

metal oxide silicon

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