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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of mop.

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Examples

  • Is there anything to that based on this incoming crop that kind of mopped up the Republicans in the midterms?

    CNN Transcript Nov 11, 2006 2006

  • Is there anything to that based on this incoming crop that kind of mopped up the Republicans in the midterms?

    CNN Transcript Nov 12, 2006 2006

  • Though his namesake restaurant might in time be best known for its lush, smoky prime rib served on Sundays or its "mopped" rib eye slobbered in a slop of molasses, German beer and vinegar during mesquite-firing-a welcome departure from Dallas steakhouse monotony-Fearing's ...

    Dallas Observer | Complete Issue 2009

  • Though his namesake restaurant might in time be best known for its lush, smoky prime rib served on Sundays or its "mopped" rib eye slobbered in a slop of molasses, German beer and vinegar during mesquite-firing-a welcome departure from Dallas steakhouse monotony-Fearing's ...

    Dallas Observer | Complete Issue 2009

  • As the sides of the road are too rough for a ride, the moped drivers tend to drive in the middle of the road; they would rather drive under heavier vehicles instead of around them and are often "mopped" off the tarmac.

    WordPress.com News FabbiGabby 2008

  • After that she took the water bucket out of the corner and the towel off the hook on the wall and mopped the floor.

    Herta Müller - Nobel Lecture 2009

  • The chubby-cheeked Mr. Jenks, who mopped his damp brow frequently with a handkerchief, leaned close.

    How to Woo a Reluctant Lady Deborah Gonzales 2011

  • For almost a year several times a week I mopped the ugly and very large floor.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • Now the people who created the problem, point fingers at the current administration as if they should have had all the mess they (the Republicans made), mopped up in a six month period.

    'People have a right to be grouchy,' Axelrod says 2009

  • My sister La Toya mopped the floors to perfection, never leaving a single smudge.

    True You Janet Jackson 2011

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