You wanna try some mind-blower?
That mind-bender takes a long time to
wear off.mind-blowerGo to mind-bender.
mind your own beeswax[...”bizwAks] tv.
to mind one’s own business. (Juvenile.)
You just mind your own beeswax! Lay
off! Mind your own beeswax!
mingy[“mIndZi] mod. meanand stingy.
Why can’t you borrow it? I’m just mingy,
that’s all. What a mingy jerk! Aw,
don’t be so mingy!
mini[“mIni] 1. mod. small; miniature. I
have a mini problem you can maybe help
me with. This is just a mini office. I’ll
get a bigger one later. 2. n. a miniskirt.
I look pretty good in a mini. I’ll try
a mini this time. I was too plump the last
time they were in style.
minkn. a woman. (Black.) I see your
mink has some new silks, man. Take this
home to your mink. She’ll like it.
Minnehaha [mIni”haha] n. champagne.
(From Longfellow’s Song of Hiawatha.
Minnehahameans “laughing waters.”)
Have a glass of Minnehaha. Minnehaha
tickles my nose.
mint 1. n. a lot of money. He makes a
mint. He can afford a little generosity.
That kind of car costs a mint! 2. mod.
good-looking; superior. (As in mint con-
dition.) Look at that guy. He’s really
mint, right? These tunes are mint, all
right!
mish-mash and mish-mosh[“mISmAS
and “mISmaS] n. a mixture; a disorderly
conglomeration. What a mish-mash of
colors and designs! There’s no theme or
focus. It’s just a mish-mash.
mish-moshGo to mish-mash.
miss the boattv. to have made an error; to
be wrong. If you think you can do that,
you have just missed the boat. The guy’s
missed the boat. He’s a lunkhead.
mittn. a hand. Get your mitts off my
glass. The kid’s got mitts on him like a
gorilla.
mixed (up) 1. mod. confused; mentally
troubled. (This is hyphenated before a
nominal.) I was a little mixed up after
the accident. This kid’s just a little
mixed. She’ll straighten out. She’s a
crazy mixed-up kid. 2. mod. alcohol in-
toxicated. I’m just a little mixed-up,
nothing serious. No reason you should be
swaying around like that. Jerry’s too
mixed to drive home.
mix it up (with someone)tv. to fight with
someone; to quarrel with someone.
Bart and Sam mixed it up for a while, and
then things calmed down. Max came
out of the shop and began to mix it up with
Bruno.
mob[mab] n. the crime syndicate. (Under-
world and journalistic.) The mob has
held this city in abject terror for years.
One of the biggest fish in the mob was
pulled from the river yesterday.
moby[“mobi] 1. mod. enormous; unwieldy.
(Like Herman Melville’s great white
whale, Moby Dick.) This is a very moby
old car. Why does he let himself get so
moby? 2. n. a megabyte, a measurement
of computer memory size. (A megabyte
is whale-sized compared to a kilobyte.)
My fixed disks give me a capacity of
over seventy-five mobies. My new com-
puter has one moby of random access
memory.
mod[mad] mod. contemporary and fash-
ionable in clothing and ideas. Yo u r
clothes are mod, but you’re just a plain,
old-fashioned prude. Your mod friends
might appreciate this article in the paper.
mod poser[“mad “poz#] n. someone who
looks mod in dress only. (Collegiate.)
Tiffany is such a mod poser. At home it’s
jeans and a T-shirt. The more extreme
the style gets, the more mod posers there
are.
moist around the edgesmod. alcohol in-
toxicated. Charlie is more than moist
around the edges. He is soused. Didn’t
that guy seem a little moist around the
edges?
mojo[“modZo] 1. n. heroin; morphine; can-
nabis. (Drugs. See also on the mojo.) mojo