mod adj.
fashionable, up-to-date.
Address: Kings Cross 70: These were the socialists from the North Shore, with Tom Jones coiffures, big black bows on the backs of their heads and mod. fashions – the Way Out long skirts and be-frilled and be-ribboned blouses. | ||
Adolescence 222: In early 1966 [...] Dayton’s Department Store brought the top English designer of Mod Clothing, John Stephen, to Minneapolis to open a special shop. | ||
Choirboys (1976) 290: Spencer’s so mod he wears flared jockey shorts. | ||
Runnin’ Down Some Lines 48: He ain’t mod, he ain’ dress mod, comfortable, nothin’. |
In compounds
plainclothes police, usu. young and dressed in the prevailing teenage and early 20s fashions, who look for crime in colleges and local youth centres.
Runnin’ Down Some Lines 67: You find expressions like [...] mod squad for young undercover officers. |
In phrases
fashionable.
Runnin’ Down Some Lines 247: mod bag Modish or contemporary costuming, the lattest style of dress. |
(US black) very fashionably dressed.
Runnin’ Down Some Lines 110: You see me mod to the bone tomorrow night. | ||
Straight Outta Compton 18: Flip [...] pointing to the threads he had on as if he was clean/fonky/mod/ragged/sharp/silked and tabbed to the bone. |