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MODS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A youth subculture that began in London in the early 1960s; a working-class movement with highly stylized dress and short hair; listened to rhythm and blues music and travelled on motor scooters
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("mods" is a kind of...):
youth subculture (a minority youth culture whose distinctiveness depended largely on the social class and ethnic background of its members; often characterized by its adoption of a particular music genre)
Meronyms (members of "mods"):
mod (a British teenager or young adult in the 1960s; noted for their clothes consciousness and opposition to the rockers)
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