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Meanings of mope (moped) in English

Catalan
triganer

Someone who wastes time.

triganer

Be apathetic, gloomy, or dazed.

Synonyms
Examples for "moon around"
Examples for "moon around"
1
The goddamn Reds have put some type of moon around the earth.
Riding rockets
2
She couldn't moon around worrying about what Adam thought of her.
Rock my world
3
You know, we never did moon around as other boys and girls did.
The Troll Garden, and Selected Stories
4
But what about the path of the moon around the Sun?
Wired
5
He was expected to moon around the campus oblivious of the world around him.
My Discovery of England
1
I've spoken to His Highness and he's over the moon about this result.
News.com.au
2
Indeed club secretary Brian Thorburn enthused: We are over the moon about it.
The Irish Times
3
The booster's third stage hit the moon about a half-hour later.
Wired
4
I'm just over the moon about it. With Australian Associated Press
The Guardian
5
Through the long hot days they moon about the empty yard.
Waiting for the Barbarians

Move around slowly and aimlessly.

Usage of moped in English
1
She wept her eyes dry; then moped until her gloom grew intolerable.
We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
2
Every one looked moped and dull; the evening promised to be insufferable.
Richard Vandermarck: A Novel
3
But in the midst of all this bustle, Willie moped and pined.
Half a Life-Time Ago
4
The boy, whenever he was not doing anything, moped in the house.
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale
5
At first, I just sat in the house and moped with Laura.
Naomi’s Room
6
The man on the moped is one of the critically injured patients.
Wired
7
Philip Feltram moped about the house, and did precisely what he pleased.
J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3 / The Haunted Baronet (1...
8
I never moped: but I can see that Casaubon does, you know.
Middlemarch
9
Thereupon he drank and moped for a week, and then hanged himself.
Under Western Eyes
10
For a long time she refused, and moped all day and night.
Welsh Fairy Tales
11
He moped around there as though he was waiting for a train.
Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest
12
But she will be moped to death, and he will starve her.
A Crooked Path: A Novel
13
A moped spews more filth into the atmosphere than an 8-cylinder SUV.
Wired
14
Finally he got off the moped and went over to the door.
The blood spilt
15
A feeble youth would have moped, but Robin only grew more resolute.
Mary Anerley: A Yorkshire Tale
16
This he stuck in his belt before racing back to his moped.
Countdown: The Liberators-ARC
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Translations for moped
Moped through the time
Moped across language varieties
United Kingdom
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United States of America
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