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- noun law, US
violation of animaginary ortrivial law
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Examples
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In Robert Bloch’s short story "The Unforgivable Sin", mopery is the titular indiscretion
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To him, plagiarism was what Trout would have called a mopery, ‘indecent exposure in the presence of a blind person of the same sex.’
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He was a pretty big guy, who would make a point of approaching any crowd of rowdies, who would generally demonstrate their rowdiness by what was then called ‘mopery’, which basically meant being publicly unintimidated.
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So why not just allow people to plead guilty to “mopery with intent to creep”?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Recent Michigan Prosecutions for “Seducing an Unmarried Woman” 2010
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Funny since all of them should be locked up for aggravated mopery.
Think Progress » KKK has ‘reversed declining membership’ in recent years. 2010
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So why not just allow people to plead guilty to “mopery with intent to creep”?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Recent Michigan Prosecutions for “Seducing an Unmarried Woman” 2010
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And now our top story about the two men arrested for mopery, but first Stella Line with traffic and weather together!
Archive 2007-04-29 Bill Crider 2007
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In the 1984 film Revenge of the Nerds, a suspect is arrested for mopery, defined as "exposing yourself to a blind person."
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Kurt Vonnegut further described mopery in the 1996 novel Timequake: Mrs. Wilderson suspected plagiarism.
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That may in the long run be a bigger evil than the small-time mopery of the likes of Blago.
blubegonia commented on the word mopery
"walking down the street with no clear destination or purpose"
March 15, 2009
strev commented on the word mopery
this word inspired me to add the teen years list
June 28, 2009
bilby commented on the word mopery
Yet mopery does not appear on the teen years list.
June 28, 2009
strev commented on the word mopery
I have walked down the street with no clear destination or purpose wondering why this is so
June 28, 2009
princeminski commented on the word mopery
The word is defined as "exposing oneself to a blind man on a public highway" in one of H. Allen Smith's books. I forget which book it was, but it's an older source than the ones I've seen cited here and elsewhere online.
June 14, 2013