mongo
As a noun, mongo is sanitation slang for treasure salvaged from trash.
As a verb, "to mongo" is to look for and rescue such wealth.
Grant Barrett of the radio program "A Way With Words" discovered that "The Lexicon of Trade Jargon" has a form of this word from before 1938: mungo, referring to the person who salvages discarded items, rather than the things being salvaged.
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