A fork of Rural Dictionary
State of mind, way of acting, how your feeling.
Today was ace, in a right happy mode. Feel like going into footy mode tonight That guy better stop staring or I'm gonna go fight mode on his ass. Boys stand back, Girl pulling mode initiated.
Taken from electronic devices, which can operate in one or more 'modes' and thereby restrict their possible actions to a few options. Applied to humans, this usually is used as a suffix indicating 1. their normal thinking and reasoning abilities have been overridden by something they're 'hung up' on; or 2. their normal drives and ambitions have been replaced by a possibly irrational desire for some particular thing.
I tried talking to him about science, but he just went into Religious Wacko mode and started spouting scripture. Watch out, those two are in geek mode. No, I don't want a burger, I'm in burrito mode.