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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a youth subculture that began in London in the early 1960s; a working-class movement with highly stylized dress and short hair; listened to rhythm and blues music and travelled on motor scooters

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n.pl. colloq. Moderations (see MODERATION 4). Etymology: abbr.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Moderation Mod`er*a"tion, n. [L. moderatio: cf. F. mod['e]ration.] 1. The act of moderating, or of imposing due restraint. 2. The state or quality of being mmoderate. In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory. --Pope. 3. Calmness of mind; equanimity; as, to bear adversity with moderation. The calm and judicious moderation of Orange. --Motley. 4. pl. The first public examinations for degrees at the University of Oxford; -- usually contracted to mods.