MOOP

n. trash; foreign items found where they do not belong. Subjects: English, Acronym

Editorial Note: This term is associated with the Burning Man festival. Etymological Note: matter out of place

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Citations: 2000 Usenet: talk.environment (Oct. 30) “Re: Protest Silicon Satan’s Attack on Burning Man”: MOOP bags and pick-up-sticks. 2003 [Tamara (tmonsta)] LiveJournal for Tamara (Portland, Oregon) (Aug. 8) “Tearing the house apart”: We want to hand out plastic mugs w/ our camp location on them as an invitation for people to come back to drink tea w/ us and hang out. Much better than flyers which are likely to end up as MOOP (Matter Out Of Place) which is an important consideration in a Leave No Trace environment. 2004 [Diane Desenberg] @ Burning Man South America Journey (Sept. 6) “Day 8: Burning Man Festival, Black Rock City, Nevada”: We packed up and searched for MOOP on our campsite. MOOP is now part of my vocabulary. It stands for Matter Out Of Place. Part of the permitting process with the Bureau of Land Management includes leave-no-trace standards. Burning Man is the largest Leave-No-Trace event in the world, and so it should come as no surprise that new vocabulary has sprung up. To me, MOOP is conceptual and applies outside the Burning man environment. A gum wrapper dropped unintentionally on the ground is MOOP. But so is a big lush green lawn in the middle of the desert.

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