mod

• It was “Mods” against “Rockers” and the police against both as this quiet seaside town of 28,000 exploded with teen‐age violence during the Easter weekend. […] The “Mods” or “Moderns” wear sharply cut Italian‐style suits and long, pointed “winklepicker” shoes. They ride motor scooters fitted with scores of gleaming accesories^([sic]).1964 March 31, “Rival Teen‐Age Gangs Terrorize British Sea Resort”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 25 Mar 2024:

• Since Doom II, thousands of gamers had begun modifying id's products and making them available for free online. Doom fans would communicate entirely over the Internet to create mods of the game—often never even meeting in person or, for that matter, talking on the phone.2003, David Kushner, Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture, Random House, →ISBN:

• The mods had a difficult time deciding whether to believe a story about a man who was attracted to his girlfriend only when she was grieving her dead sister, but it stayed up.2019 October 23, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “How Reddit's R/Relationships Subreddit Is Moderated”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 24 Oct 2019:

• I'd like to convert some of the arch^([sic]) mods back into Amiga mods since I don't have the original Amiga versions.1992, Jordan K. Hubbard, “How to convert Amiga mods to Arch?”, in comp.sys.acorn (Usenet):
• These mods, while usually having the distinctive bleep and beep quality of transistor-generated tones, are often astonishingly creative and rich in expressive nuances.2003, Rene T. A. Lysloff; Leslie C. Gay, Jr., Music and Technoculture, page 38:

Oxford University

• It will thus be seen that, however well a boy may have been trained at school, his time may be amply occupied in preparing for Mods. during his first year and a half of residence at Oxford.1891 November, S. E. Winbolt, “The Schools at Oxford”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN, archived from the original on 02 Oct 2022:

• Dems and GOPers Treat Their Mods Differently [title]2009 April 29, Marc Ambinder, “Dems and GOPers Treat Their Mods Differently”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 10 May 2021, retrieved 25 Mar 2024: