moria /mor'ee-*/ n.
Like nethack and rogue, one of the large PD
Dungeons-and-Dragons-like simulation games, available for a wide
range of machines and operating systems. The name is from
Tolkien's Mines of Moria; compare elder days, elvish. The game is extremely addictive and a
major consumer of time better used for hacking. See also nethack, rogue, Angband.
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MOTAS /moh-tahz/ n.
[Usenet: Member Of The Appropriate Sex, after MOTOS and MOTSS] A
potential or (less often) actual sex partner. See also SO.
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MOTOS /moh-tohs/ n.
[acronym from the 1970 U.S. census forms via Usenet: Member Of
The Opposite Sex] A potential or (less often) actual sex partner.
See MOTAS, MOTSS, SO. Less common
than MOTSS or MOTAS, which has
largely displaced it.
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MOTSS /mots/ or /M-O-T-S-S/ n.
[from the 1970 U.S. census forms via Usenet] Member Of The
Same Sex, esp. one considered as a possible sexual partner. The
gay-issues newsgroup on Usenet is called _soc.motss_. See
MOTOS and MOTAS, which derive from it. See also SO.