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"ref": "2001 May 27, Travis Anton, “Cigarette Smoke”, in alt.home.repair (Usenet)",
"text": "Pokemon, digimon and all other merchandised mons, what good parent will disagree with me that those little invading, mind rotting things should be tolerated... those should be illegal, too...",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2001 May 24, Horace Wachope, “Kids Toys”, in alt.ozdebate (Usenet)",
"text": "And dont buy Pokemon or Digimon or any other bloody Mons or you will never hear the ned of it :-)",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2003 December 9, tito, “Main difference between anime and U.S. cartoons?”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet)",
"text": "At any rate Digimon was the best mon/collector series we've seen yet, to the point its popularity was prolly bigger here than its marketing.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A video game or anime in which catching and battling creatures is an important element."
],
"links": [
[
"fandom",
"fandom"
],
[
"slang",
"slang"
],
[
"anime",
"anime"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(fandom slang) A video game or anime in which catching and battling creatures is an important element."
],
"tags": [
"slang"
],
"topics": [
"lifestyle"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/mɑn/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/mɒn/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɒn"
},
{
"audio": "En-au-mon.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4d/En-au-mon.ogg/En-au-mon.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/En-au-mon.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "'mon"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Japanese mon (currency)"
],
"word": "mon"
}
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