mono

noun

1. (Australia, UK, countable, slang, uncountable)A bicycle or motorcycle trick where the front wheel is lifted off the ground while riding.
2. (countable, uncountable)A diet where someone eats only one type of food.

   “plum mono”

3. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable)Clipping of monomorphism.
4. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal, uncountable)Clipping of mononucleosis.
5. (countable, informal)Any fish of the family Monodactylidae.
6. (informal)A monogamous person.

   “For some monos, there are no acceptable mono—poly solutions as far as they are concerned.”

7. A member of a Native American people who traditionally live in the central and eastern Sierra Nevada, the Mono Basin, and adjacent areas of the Great Basin in California.

   “The Mono believe that Condor seized humans, cut off their heads and drained their blood in order to flood the home of Ground Squirrel.”

8. A Mono wind.

   “[…]SANTA ANAS, MONOS, AND NORTHERS.”

   “Much of the cool weather was accompanied by dry winds and the occurrence of Monos and Santa Anas was above normal.”

   “[…]Santa Anas of southern California, the Monos of northern California, and the dry winds in Oregon and Washington. In Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, the hot, desiccating winds, called "Siroccos", blow from the desert (south)[…]”

   “[…]the Monos blow from the east. If the ambient northeast Santa Ana winds are of low to moderate intensity and are blowing aloft but not along the ground, upcanyon south or southwest daytime winds may be measured at a burn site when official[…]”

9. A member of an ethnic group from the Congo.

adj

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal, not-comparable)Clipping of monochrome.

   “The excellent on-screen display of italics, superscripts and subscripts, and other niceties available on the color screen now display on mono monitors, but with the inherently superior text font of the mono mode.”

2. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal, not-comparable)Clipping of monosexual.

   “People who do wish to be recognizable as trans or bi are often coercively passed off as cis or mono anyway.”

   “That is, establishing as it does a replacement binary (mono versus bi, rather than hetero versus homo) it functions to erase lesbian and gay specificity. In turn, this fails to consider, and even elides, important structural inequities between the hetero- and homosexual categories. The difficulty of establishing bisexual legitimacy in a discursive context of oppositional categories was acknowledged by a number of participants. For some, invoking the mono/bi dichotomy affords bisexuality [...]”

3. (informal, not-comparable)Monaural or monophonic; having only a single audio channel.

   “Because many in the audience were very close to one of the speakers, the DJ decided to play the music in mono.”

4. (informal)Monoamorous, monogamous.

name

1. The Numic language of the Mono people of California.
2. A county in California, United States, see Mono County.
3. An alkaline desert lake (Mono Lake) in this county, having a unique ecosystem.
4. The language of the Mono people of the Congo.
5. A town in Ontario.
6. An island of the Solomon Islands.
7. A river in Togo.