n.
An unconventionally modern style of fashionable dress originating in England in the 1960s.
adj.
- In or characteristic of this unconventionally modern style.
- Fashionably up-to-date, especially in style, design, or dress.
[After the Mods, name of several gangs of English youths in the 1960s, short for MODERN.]
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