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mom

nounverbtop 1 000 in film dialogue

  • United Kingdom//mɒm//
  • United States//mɑm//
  • United States/[mɑ̃m]/
  • Canada//mɒm//
  • Canada//mʌm//

Mother.

noun

  1. 1

    informalMother.

    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. 2

    informalMother. used as a term of address for one's wife

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

  3. 3

    informalAn adult female owner of a pet.

Etymology

Clipping of momma.

verb

  1. 1

    informalTo 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, […]

Forms

plural
moms
past tense
mommed
past participle
mommed
present participle
momming
third person singular
moms
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).