mom

noun

1. (Canada, South-Africa, US, West-Midlands, colloquial, informal)Mother.

   “To find out what moms really want this year, we turned to the best source possible: our own mothers.”

   “At a very early age, Knowles says she was taught not to draw any attention to herself. “Pretty is as pretty does,” her mom used to say.”

2. (Canada, South-Africa, US, West-Midlands, broadly, colloquial, informal)Mother.

   “(spoken by the father) I don't share it with mom! Right, mom?”

3. (informal)An adult female owner of a pet.
4. prefix of a female commoner who marries a royal prince.
5. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, middle)Initialism of middle of the market.
6. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of message-oriented middleware, hardware or software infrastructure supporting sending and receiving of messages between distributed systems.
7. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of motive, opportunity, means (“factors to consider in investigating a crime”).
8. (alt-of, alternative, uncountable)Alternative form of MoM.

verb

1. (Canada, US, informal, transitive)To care for in a motherly way.

   “The shock of my news had worn off, and now she'd want to know where I was, how I was doing, and she'd sniff out that I was with someone. “I just wanted to check in on you.” That was Mom. Totally unashamed about momming me.”

   “He tried to tell me how to live, to mom me, I told him fuck off, […]”

name

1. (informal)One’s mother.

   “I wish Mom and Dad didn't argue so much.”

2. A surname from Khmer.

adj

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable)Initialism of month-over-month/month-on-month; compared to the same time period in the previous month.