Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A household implement made of absorbent material attached to a typically long handle and used for washing, dusting, or drying floors.
- noun A loosely tangled bunch or mass.
- intransitive verb To wash or wipe with or as if with a mop.
- intransitive verb To use a mop to wash or dry surfaces.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A napkin.
- noun A bunch of thrums or coarse yarn, or a piece of cloth, fastened to a long handle and used for cleaning floors, windows, carriages, etc. A smaller utensil of the same sort is used for washing dishes, etc.
- noun Anything having the shape or appearance of a mop.
- noun A statute fair to which servants of all kinds come to be hired by farmers and others.
- noun A tuft of grass.
- noun A wry mouth; a pout; a grimace.
- noun A pouting person, especially a pouting child; hence, a pet child; a child; a young girl; a moppet.
- noun A young fish. See the quotation under def. 2.
- noun 4. The haddock.
- noun A fool.
- To rub or wipe with or as with a mop; clean with a mop.
- To muffle up.
- To drink greedily.
- To make a wry mouth.
- To fidget about.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To make a wry mouth.
- noun A made-up face; a grimace.
- transitive verb To rub or wipe with a mop, or as with a mop
- noun An implement for washing floors, or the like, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle.
- noun Prov. Eng. A fair where servants are hired.
- noun Prov. Eng. The young of any animal; also, a young girl; a moppet.
- noun [U.S.] A clamp for holding the thrums or rags of a mop.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An implement for
washing floors , or the like, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection ofthrums , orcoarse yarn , fastened to ahandle . - noun humorous A dense head of
hair . - noun UK, dialect A fair where servants are hired.
- noun UK, dialect The
young of anyanimal ; also, a young girl; amoppet . - noun A made-up face; a
grimace . - verb transitive To
rub ,scrub ,clean orwipe with a mop, or as if with a mop.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip
- verb to wash or wipe with or as if with a mop
- noun cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I brings a mop – *mop mop mop* – an tucks yor brayns bak in.
Young Skywalker – rest now you must… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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*slaps fayc gently with orinj pawz* Heer, we kleens up teh brayns, old-fashuned style, with a mop. *mop mop mop* *Sqweegee, sqweegee* *mop mop mop*
u fal down, go boom? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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They're going street by street, doing what they call mop-up, making sure that any of the remaining hotspots are completely put out.
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On days three, six, and nine, they used what they called a mop-up drug to make sure there were no more leukemia cells anywhere in my body.
Beyond the Storm DR. JERRY JONES 1997
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Okay, so the redshirt freshman quarterback played in mop-up duty at the end of a game in which his team was on the sour end of a beatdown.
Florida State 34, Virginia 14: Three up, three down Steve Yanda 2010
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Just 20 minutes a week with the vacuum cleaner or mop is enough to help banish those blues, and sport works even better.
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There's not much more Cullen can do, '' said Willy Korn, the Tigers highly touted freshman who got some of the loudest cheers at Death Valley when he threw his first touchdown pass in mop-up duty in the fourth quarter.
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As for Huard, he looked OK in mop-up duty vs. the Bengals last week.
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Although he threw nine passes in mop-up duty against Central Florida, Tebow had rarely used his left arm since - aside from an occasional stiff arm.
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To transmit messages, the gang employed an elaborate system of codes and cryptograms â including a 400-year-old binary alphabet system devised by Sir Francis Bacon â as well as more prosaic jailhouse ruses, such as slipping notes in mop handles and under recreation yard rocks.
sionnach commented on the word mop
Jane Smiley on housecleaning.
February 1, 2008
madmouth commented on the word mop
in phonological parlance, the Maximum Onset Principle; in an utterance with many contiguous syllables, coda consonants will move to the right into available onset positions. Thus, when we say "a dozen eggs and four oranges", the syllable form is actually "a do ze negg zand fo roranges".
June 14, 2009
bilby commented on the word mop
I've never said "a dozen eggs and four oranges".
June 14, 2009
strev commented on the word mop
It's a nice change from kippers
June 14, 2009
madmouth commented on the word mop
but you will now, just to catch the MOP in action
June 14, 2009
bilby commented on the word mop
Yes, moppet.
June 14, 2009