named for the Modoc brothers trucking of the 1920's
they drove the highways and byways of rural Indiana and Illinois,
just as fast as they could get their trucks to go.
Engines screaming horns honking as they roared on by in a cloud of dust.
Starting in the early days of the Cold War (late 40's), the CIA began a secret project called Operation Mockingbird, with the intent of buying influence behind the scenes at major media outlets and putting reporters on the CIA payroll, which has proven to be a stunning ongoing success. The CIA effort to recruit American news organizations and journalists to become spies and disseminators of propaganda, was headed up by Frank Wisner, Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, and Philip Graham (publisher of The Washington Post). Wisner had taken Graham under his wing to direct the program code-named Operation Mockingbird and both have presumably committed suicide.
One may use the phrase “You think you’re a big man for mocking me?” to ask if another thinks that they are a "big man" because they are teasing (“mocking”) you. This phrase may be used as an exclamation or/and to ask another’s intent.
The process of using guile and cunning to attract members of the opposite sex to you who are far more attractive then yourself. The term is based on the race of devolved humans in H.G Wells' sci-fi fantasy The Time Machine, know as Morlocks, who live underground and on occasion climb to the surface to snatch one of the beautiful Eloi.
The term first appeared in conversation between Robert K Walker and Nicolas Costello in 2003 when pissed up on wine.