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the mopes
noun as in blues
Example Sentences
The slings and arrows come not just from the “mopes” and “skels” in the housing projects or Black Lives Matter supporters downtown but from Malone’s by-the-book captain, the Internal Affairs Bureau, the higher-ups in the police commissioner’s and mayor’s offices, and even the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.
The Appeal: Just off the el train at 58th and State, this is where the mopes and bums'll give you the horse laugh for going to a swell dance with a hot dame, and where gassing with the wrong punks is liable to get you pasted in the mush.
Quick, someone wake up the mopes in Halas Hall and relay this information.
The American movie industry, in the mopes for most of last year, rebounded vibrantly in the first three months of 2012.
Fanning’s precocious Lily is just the tonic to cure Dylan of the mopes; Johansson’s Kelly, a senior staff member, is all-American-gorgeous and conveniently if improbably unattached.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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