mongo

noun

1. (New-York-City, uncountable)Still-usable things salvaged (by sanmen) from garbage.

   “The old room was furnished in "mongo," Sanit lingo for stuff picked out of the garbage. Mongo-picking, Ukeles explained, "is against the law. The garbage belongs to the City. But until a recent rehabilitation program, which is the first since the Depression, the Sanmen never had their own furnishings." Prior to the show, the Sanmen voted on the worst facilities in the system and Ukeles selected the exhibition mongo from them—shabby, broken-down furniture, walls cluttered with cheap […]”

   “[Mongo] refers to trash, or more specifically, to treasure found in trash: books, artifacts, furniture, even food. Ted Botha's book explores a whole culture, and various subcultures, that revolve around mongo. Those obsessed with mongo often live on the margins, […]”

2. (uncountable)A manner of pushing oneself on a skateboard with one's front foot as opposed to one's back foot.

   “push mongo”

3. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping)Clipping of mongoloid.
4. (Philippines, uncountable)mung bean
5. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of my own NGO.

name

1. A Bantu language spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.