Definitions for modmɒd

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

modmɒd(adj.)

very modern in style, dress, etc.
Category: Common Vocabulary
(sometimes cap.) of or pertaining to a style of dress of the 1960s, typified by miniskirts, bell-bottom trousers, and boots.
Category: Clothing
(n.)a person who is mod.
Category: Common Vocabulary
(sometimes cap.) a British teenager of the 1960s who affected Edwardian dress.
Category: Common Vocabulary, Clothing

Origin of mod:

1955–60; shortened form of modern

mod.

moderate.
modern.
modification.

Princeton's WordNet

mod(adj)
a British teenager or young adult in the 1960s; noted for their clothes consciousness and opposition to the rockers
mod, modern, modernistic(adj)
relating to a recently developed fashion or style
"their offices are in a modern skyscraper"; "tables in modernistic designs";

Wiktionary

mod(Noun)
An unconventionally modern style of fashionable dress originating in England in the 1960s, characterized by ankle-length black trenchcoats and sunglasses.
mod(Noun)
a 1960s British person who dressed in such a style and was interested in modernism and the modern music of the time; the opposite of a rocker.
mod(Noun)
A modification to an object, computer game, etc., typically for the purpose of individualizing and/or enhancing the performance of the object.
mod(Noun)
A moderator, for example on a forum.
mod(Noun)
A module (file containing a tracker music sequence).
mod(Noun)
A moderately difficult route.
mod(Verb)
To modify an object from its original condition, typically for the purposes of individualizing and/or enhancing the performance of the object.
His friends were particularly impressed with the way he modded his Ruckus.
mod(Verb)
To moderate; to punish a rule-breaking user on a forum, especially when done by a moderator.
Don't break the rules or you'll be modded.

Origin: From mōdaz, from mē-. Cognate with Old High German muot (German Mut), Old Saxon mod (Dutch moed), Old Norse móðr (Swedish mod), Gothic 033C034903380343. The Indo-European root was also the source of Ancient Greek μῶθαι and Latin mos.

The New Hacker's Dictionary

mod
[very common] 1. Short for ‘modify’ or ‘modification’. Very commonly used — in fact the full terms are considered markers that one is being formal. The plural ‘mods’ is used esp. with reference to bug fixes or minor design changes in hardware or software, most esp. with respect to patch sets or a diff. See also case mod. 2. Short for modulo but used only for its techspeak sense.