モボ

noun

modern boy

1920s slang abbreviation of モダンボーイ, referring to a fashionable, Westernized young man of the Taishō/early Shōwa era. Dated and rarely used outside historical or retro contexts.

See also: モダンボーイ

• 大たい正しょう時じ代だい、銀ぎん座ざには多おおくのモボが集あつまった。

  In the Taishō era, many modern boys gathered in Ginza.

• 「モボ」はモダンボーイの略りゃくで、当とう時じの流りゅう行こう語ごだった。

  Mobo is short for modan bōi and was a buzzword of the time.