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    [Noun]  | "moss*back" | \ ˈmȯs-ˌbak \


    1: a large sluggish fish (such as a largemouth bass)

    2: an extremely old-fashioned or reactionary person : fogy


    Origin: 1853 ;

    [Noun]  | "mossback" 


    1: a person with old-fashioned ideas;


      * e.g., " ... those mossbacks at the intelligence agency didn't get the memo that the world had changed "





     [ "mossback" ]

    1: A slang term used to refer to those, often from the Pacific Northwest, who prefer drizzly, overcast weather to sunshine. The term alludes to these people preferring to spend so much time out of the sun that moss grows on their backs.

      * e.g.,  ... "What do you mean you don't want to hang at the beach?! It's gloriously sunny in Seattle!" 

     [ "mossback" ]

    1: a very conservative or reactionary person, especially one with old fashioned beliefs or values

      * e.g.,  ... I don't need to listen to an old mossback to know that things are messed up. 

     [ "Old Mossback" ]

    1: A legendary and giant snapping turtle in Waltham, Massachusetts.

      * e.g.,  ... Holy shit "Old Mossback" is huge 

     [ "mossback" ]

    1: a slur towards vietnamese people during the vietnam war, referring to their camouflage.

      * e.g.,  ... look at him, dirty mossback 

     [ "Mossback" ]

    1: An ethnic slur targeting the Vietnamese from their Guerrilla Warfare techniques during the Vietnamese War.

      * e.g.,  ... Look at that mossback over there. 

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