# "Mopery" - what movie?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 19, 2005, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mopery-what-movie/308854 "2005-06-19T00:08:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![saramamalana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@saramamalana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saramamalana)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mopery-what-movie/308854/1 "2005-06-19T00:08:22Z")

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“Mopery” was my word-of-the-day from my email list the other day. I recall that in some movie, someone was arrested for mopery, but I can’t remember what it was! I feel like it might’ve been _Revenge of the Nerds_ or of that ilk, but I can’t place it.

Help meeeeeeee.

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**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mopery-what-movie/308854/2 "2005-06-19T00:19:46Z")

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Yep, it was indeed _Revenge of the Nerds_.

Police Officer: See that man over there? We arrested him for mopery

Booger: What’s mopery?

Police Officer: Mopery is exposing yourself to a blind person.

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**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mopery-what-movie/308854/3 "2005-06-19T01:20:20Z")

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IIRC, mopery was something that the Three Stooges were always being accused of. If not them, then look through the works of Thomas Pynchon.

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**Author:** ![saramamalana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@saramamalana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saramamalana)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mopery-what-movie/308854/4 "2005-06-19T06:53:30Z")

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\*\*pinkfreud \*\*that’s it, thanks!

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**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mopery-what-movie/308854/5 "2005-06-19T17:12:02Z")

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“Mopery” is used often in law school as a “generic crime”, to discuss enhancements and other criminal law issues in the abstract.

See also “aggravated mopery with intent to creep.”