mope

present singular third person mopes · participle present moping · participle past moped · past moped

1. intransitiveTo carry oneself in a depressed, lackadaisical manner; to give oneself up to low spirits; to pout, sulk.
2. transitiveTo make spiritless and stupid.

plural mopes

1. The act of moping

   When she gets upset, she has a little mope, and then gets over it.

2. archaicA dull, spiritless person.

   putting gulleries on some or other till they have made by their humouring or gulling ex stulto insanum, a mope or a noddy

   1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC

   Synonyms: mopus

3. pornography industryA bottom feeder who "mopes" around a pornography studio hoping for his big break and often does bit parts in exchange for room and board and meager pay.

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   2011: LA Weekly, documenting uses dating to the 1990s The porn industry is many things. Subtle is not one of them. So when Porn Inc. went searching for a job title for people like Stephen Hill, the choice was "mope." It's based on the off-camera life of these fringe actors, hangers-on who mope around the studios hoping for a bit role, which if they're lucky might bring them $50 plus food — and the chance to have sex with a real, live woman.https://web.archive.org/web/20110310155324/http://www.laweekly.com/2011-02-24/news/porn-machete-murder/