noun.
Items found in the trash that can be salvaged.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
See the extract.
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noun.
100 mongo equal 1 tugrik in Mongolia
Word Usage
"As a child, Mr. Botha stockpiled used batteries in shoe boxes, and when he moved to New York in the early 1990's, he furnished his apartment with "mongo" - local slang for "any discarded object that is retrieved.""