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moped

/ˈmoʊ.pɛd/

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What does moped mean?

noun

  1. A lightweight, two-wheeled vehicle equipped with a small motor and pedals, designed to go no faster than some specified speed limit.

verb

  1. simple past and past participle of mope

adjective

  1. Melancholic, dejected.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈmoʊ.pɛd/

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Other dictionary pronunciations

/moʊpt/
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He moped into the schoolyard wishing she were a boy, and imagining how he would trounce her if she were.
Mark TwainThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer, CompleteProject Gutenberg ebook #74
Did she ever think of poor Charlotte?--if she did, my dear Miss, it was only to laugh at the poor girl's want of spirit in consenting to be moped up in the country, while Montraville was enjoying all the pleasures of a gay, dissipated city.
Mrs. RowsonCharlotte TempleProject Gutenberg ebook #171
More book examples (3)
They would have talked to me too, but I held back, and moped in my corner; scared by their love-making and hilarity, though it was far from boisterous, and almost wondering that no judgement came upon them for their hardness of heart.
Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldProject Gutenberg ebook #766
Perhaps it is as well that I was saved from launching it; but at the time my misery at my failure was so acute that for some days I simply moped on the beach, and stared at the water and thought of death.
H. G. (Herbert George) WellsThe island of Doctor MoreauProject Gutenberg ebook #159
The day we let them loose we discovered what had been the matter with the ones that had moped: they had some old friend who had chanced to be placed in some other part of the deck, and this separation had been the cause of their low spirits.
Roald AmundsenThe South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 1Translated by Arthur G. ChaterProject Gutenberg ebook #3414