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Pomo
Short for post-modern

That shirt is so pomo!
By Hinda
Pomo
A person who is self-consciously postmodern in his attitude and appearence.

The pomos regarded the event with ironic distance.
By Buffy
Pomo
an aesthetic style characterized by overt (and usually obnoxiously cartoonish) semantic references, deriving from the postmodernist period of architecture and design (the 80's).

Venturi's newest house is far too pomo for my taste
By Hetty
Pomo
Abbreviation for postmodernism. Usually hostile.

The journal took a pomo turn round about 1990, but it seems to have recovered since.
By Reiko
Pomo
Portmanteau of the words "poser" (Brit, Austral & NZ informal a person who likes to be seen in trendy clothes in fashionable places) and "homo" (Used as a disparaging term for a gay man or lesbian.)
The pomo is characterized by the propensity to proclaim oneself as a homosexual for the express purpose of procuring sexual favor from people of the opposite sex. The pomo preys on artistic college females using their trendy, sensitive pomosexual wiles.

Damn it. "Gay Sean" the frigging pomo is tapping Kelly the hot art major's ass once again... FML.
By Nolie
Pomo
post modern: being wierd for the sake of being wierd

this chair is po-mo

Comment submitted with request to delete: The meaning of being "wierd" trying to be extra wierd is
hopelessly vague. It does not suit the original meanings
of this new term that are already well current in loose
modern English. The term as given in disputed usage would
be a hypernym of a word{can't think of one current} such
as "Ultra" in special use in French politics after restor-
ation of Monarchy, early 18th century. It is a little too
hyper, in my opinion.
Truly Yours,
By Annis
Pomo
1. Post Modern
2. Post Emo, usually referring to bands like TAKING BACK SUNDAY, DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL and MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE. Not to be confused with real Emo (emotive hardcore)

Oh man, that band, the Used, they are so pomo.
By Ediva
Pomo
gay porn or homosexual porn

"that guy is such a fag, i bet he's going to watch some pomo"
By Aurelea
No Pomo
A phrase which can be used at the end of any political statement which seems to borrow from postmodernism, but is still coherent and anchored at least partly in reality. Postmodernists often sound theoretically vague or obfuscating, which is anathema to many on the political Left. Other leftists, however, embrace some selection of postmodernist theory, but may not want to be associated with all that is labeled postmodern. And so "no pomo" is used to allow for such statements by preempting dogmatic leftist tirades and flame wars.

"No pomo" is a reference to the phrase "no homo," used by masculine straight men to allow them to compliment their comrades by preempting the accusation of being "gay."

"While the class struggle is clearly a critical component to any meaningful revolutionary politic, one cannot ignore the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality and ability, as well as the nuanced and problematic issues of essentialism and identity in general ... no pomo."
By Madeline
POMO
Short for Permanent Open Market Operations.

The mechanism by which the Federal Reserve manipulates the stock market.

It is no secret that the Federal Reserve, and its now semi-daily interventions in market liquidity via POMO, is rather hell bent on creating the illusion that the economy is alive and well courtesy of a ramping stock market.
By Isabella