mot
- n a clever remark
- n a compulsory annual test of older motor vehicles for safety and exhaust fumes
- Malheureuse-ment, le mot "mal" tait mal choisi.
- He seems to have a gift for the mal mot, telling a menacing group of black separatists, "Hey, ol' Martin Luther King was one heck of a fellah, wasn't he?".
- Fifty years on, the name Edsel remains shorthand for hubris and collapse, a mal mot of capitalism, right up there with New Coke, Betamax and Pets.