mot

noun3

1. •
   A witty remark; a witticism; a bon mot.

   • Here and there turns up a […] savage mot. — 1859
2. •
   (no longer used) A word or a motto; a device.

   • Tarquin's eye may read the mot afar. — 1594
3. •
   (no longer used) A note or brief strain on a bugle.

   • Comrades, mark these three mots — it is the call of the Knight of the Fetterlock — 1819

noun3

1. •
   (UK, slang) A woman; a wife.

   • And we shall caper a-heel-and-toeing, / A Newgate hornpipe some fine day; / With the mots, their ogles throwing, / Tol lol, &c. / And old Cotton humming his pray. — 1829
2. •
   (UK, slang) A prostitute.
3. •
   (UK, slang) A landlady.

   • After some altercation with the "mot" of the "ken" (mistress of the lodging-house) about the cleanliness of a knife or fork, my new acquaintance began to arrange "ground," &c., for the night's work. — 1851

noun7

1. •
   (UK) An MOT test (an annual test of roadworthiness for most UK motor vehicles over three years old, or four years old in Northern Ireland).

   • I can’t drive over this week, the car is in for its MOT.
2. •
   (UK) Any regular checkup.

   • The new regulator will introduce an 'MOT' approach for water company infrastructure, requiring health checks on pipes, pumps and more. — 2026
3. •
   (UK) An aggregate which meets one of the three Ministry of Transport standards for use in road, path and sports court subbase layers.

   • MOT Type 1 gives the strongest base, MOT Type 3 the best drainage, and MOT Type 2 is intermediate for both
4. •
   Initialism of member of the tribe (“a Jew”).

   • And, of course, she and her family would be welcome in our home too, with bagels, crembos—and even the kind of four course meal we were lucky enough to enjoy with them, our fellow MoTs. — 2012
5. •
   Initialism of management of technology.
6. •
   Initialism of microwave oven transformer.
7. •
   Initialism of magnetooptical trap.

verb1

1. •
   (UK, informal) To subject a motor vehicle to an MOT test.

   • I've got to get the car MOTed by Friday.