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mongo
 n.— «Besides furniture and bathroom, I crammed the section with a decor of “Mongo,” items workers selected from the waste flow, that they refused to put in the truck—art, religious figures, dolls. » —“Interview: Mierle Laderman Ukeles on Maintenance and Sanitaton Art” by Mierle Laderman Ukeles Spring, 1996. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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