Catchword: mongo

Filed under: English

Part of speech: n.

Quotation: Nagle’s interests lie more with the trash collectors than with the trash, although the two intersect on the subject of “mongo”—sanitation lingo for “redeemed garbage” or the act of collecting it.…“Within the department, if you mongo or if you don’t—there’s kind of a dividing line,” she said. “ ‘He mongos.’ ‘Do you mongo?’ ‘Oh, mongo, are you kidding? I wouldn’t mongo.’ ” She paused. “Hell, I mongo, absolutely. And I have some pretty nice things.”

Article or document title:
“Dr. Garbage” (URL)

Author:
Ben McGrath

Article, document, publication, web site:
New Yorker

Date of publication:
Nov. 13, 2006

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