MST

See also: Mst.

English

Proper noun

MST

  1. Initialism of Mountain Standard Time.

Noun

MST (plural MSTs)

  1. (graph theory) Initialism of minimum spanning tree.

Etymology 3

From the sci-fi comedy television series Mystery Science Theater 3000, commonly known as MST3K, which features an audience of fictional characters (a man stranded in space and his robot companions) riffing real B movies.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌɛm ˌɛs ˈtiː/

Verb

MST (third-person singular simple present MSTs, present participle MSTing, simple past and past participle MSTed)

  1. (fandom slang) To mock a work (typically a fanfic) by inserting satirical commentary.
    • 1998 September 26, Brandon Ray, “Re: What is Fair Use?”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):
      But you can't quote large chunks, and MSTing a story would seem to me to be across the line into infringement.
    • 2002 August 3, ForwardPast, “Re: Blanket Permission To MST 3”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet):
      Maybe that's why its[sic] considered bad etiquette to MST without permission.
    • 2003 April 5, Frank White, “Re: Fan fics?”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):
      Look it up and see if you don't agree that this story deserves to be MSTed, if not completely erased from existance[sic]...
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:MST.
Derived terms

Noun

MST (plural MSTs)

  1. (fandom slang) A parody fanfic created in this manner.
    • 1999 March 10, Teddi Litman, “Re: THE ACID DESK: Vol 1, No 9 - Plagarism Proof”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):
      The commentary in the MSTs may have been nasty and uncalled for; but it was not plagiarism.
    • 2003 April 8, Igenlode W., “Re: Fan fics?”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):
      The only MSTs I've seen (on alt.drwho.creative) have been of perfectly good fan fiction, deliberately cut about to make it look silly (truncating a character's words in the middle to create an[sic] non-existent innuendo, for example) - and those were *with* the authors' permission.
    • 2003 June 18, Craig McMartin, “Re: Hasta!”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):
      Goodbye Catherine! Come back soon! We'll all miss your unique style of MSTs! I know i will!! ;_;
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:MST.

Anagrams

French

Etymology

Initialism of maladie sexuellement transmissible.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛ.mɛs.te/
  • (file)

Noun

MST f (plural MST)

  1. STD (sexually transmitted disease)

Anagrams

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈẽ.mi ˈɛ.si ˈte/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈe.me ˈɛ.se ˈte/

Noun

MST m (invariable)

  1. (Brazil) Initialism of Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra.

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌeme ˈese te/ [ˌe.me ˈe.se t̪e]

Proper noun

MST m

  1. (politics, Argentina) initialism of Movimiento Socialista de los Trabajadores (Workers' Socialist Movement), an Argentine political party
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