You and me, both. I just tell people it was like growing up in a Starsky & Hutch episode.
Where’d you go? I ended up at Calle Mayor and South because of where my mom lived when my folks split up.
Here’s a Letter to the Editor from the LA Times in 1992 that might shed some light.
Nice find! “Moated” also shows up on Urban Dictionary, but with far fewer references. “Moted” is given as being a shortening of “demoted” used in the same manner, but like jerseymule’s link, seems to be tied more to the 90s.
I could easily see it mutating through all of those - and more - through a ten year period on the schoolyard. I’d be surprised if it didn’t, frankly.
San Diego my whole life…and never heard it, either as moded or modded.
Lifetime East Bay resident. Heard it all the time as a teen in the 80’s. Not so much since then.
Totally heard it all the time growing up in Long Beach - I associate it with 5th grade which would have been 1980ish. I think it went out of style when Valley speak came in. Though in my head I always spelled it “moaded”. Because it was pronounced just like “loaded” but with an m.
If you had been bagged on it meant you were moaded and you would have to scratch your neck, per the parlance of the day.
I spent sixth grade (1982-83) in the LA suburb of Glendale, but the rest of my life has been in Tennessee. I had never heard of it.
Norcal - I am familiar with the term and used it frequently. An alternative would be “face!” As in losing face or in your face. A common more recent analogous term would be pwnd but it’s not quite the same.
I’m not from CA but I know I’ve heard it. I want to say I heard it on tv or a movie or something in the 90s, but I can’t remember what I was watching. Now it’s going to bug the shit out of me.
Sure, but just like the English language learner books on slang, the example conversations are often ridiculous, because they contrive to jam too much slang into a three- or four-turn conversation. In real life, people don’t employ a slang term with every utterance, but the makers of these “dictionaries” don’t seem to realize that, and the example conversations are stupid.
Looking at the pole results reminds me of the time I asked people if they knew what a chili size is.
It was ubiquitous in Sothern California in the late 70s and early 80s and then disappeared. Anyone of a certain age from SoCal will have heard of it and pretty much no one else.
Venice High School Class of 82 by the way.
Moded Corroded, Your butt exploded.
Bay Area. Know it and it’s closed cousin, “molded.” As in “moded (or molded) and corroded,” or being shown to be emarassingly wrong.
Yeah, you kinda blew it without a “No, I’ve never heard the term at all, and I AM from California” option.
San Diego, in high school from '77-'81.
It scans better as “your booty exploded,” imho. Which is how I heard it.
I’m from Long Beach too, but about 5 years younger. By my time, the expression evolved to simply “scratch,” pronounced “skeee-RATCH,” with a slow scratching-your-own-neck hand motion. But “bagged on” and “moaded” did get transmitted to my generation intact, you’ll be pleased to know.
I grew up in SoCal, and it was definitely ‘moded,’ not modded (though there may have been an apostrophe, I never tried to spell it). Or maybe 'moted, as in demoted? I never looked much into the etymology of it, just heard it a lot.
For me it was always in the sense of someone using a particularly good putdown on the target.