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mope
noun- a person who is not particularly bright US, 1919
From C16 to C19 a part of colloquial speech, “mope” reappeared 200 years later as slang. - Alma mater for many a mope majorin’ in thievery, roguery, lechery, and mopery. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 20, 1975
- Just as a couple of mopes who you knew from the Palm Springs crowd. — Gerald Petievich, To Live and Die in L.A., p. 195, 1983
- I don’t suppose you could ever accuse these two mopes of being on the take. — Jim Carroll, Forced Entries, p. 93, 1987
- in hospital usage, a nonsurgeon physician US
A derogatory evolution of the term “medical outpatient”. - — Sally Williams, “Strong” Words, p. 151, 1994
- a thug US
- Yeah, right, Joey One-Way, you know, that mope wrote White Man Black Hole. — Joel Rose, Kill Kill Faster Faster, p. 35, 1997
- On one of these streets, too, a young housing cop was killed when a Dominican mope tossed a bucket of spackling off a rooftop that landed on the poor patrolman’s skull, killing the rookie officer. — Samuel M. Katz, Anytime Anywhere, p. 63, 1997
- — The New Yorker, 10 August 1998
- [A] perp can be a “skell” or a “mope,” depending on whether he’s a bum or a thug. — The New Yorker, p. 35, 10 August 1998
- “Not bad for a couple defrocked mopes.” — Jonathan Kellerman, Rage, p. 320, 2005
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