Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having rough. unkempt hair, resembling the head of a mop.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective having a bushy top without a leader; -- of trees.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of trees) having a bushy top without a leader
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Examples
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Jones was a slender, mop-headed, man-grown, truculent flame of an individual who seemed to go out of his way to insult his passengers.
Chapter V 2010
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The same year saw the release of "Brainscan," with the mop-headed actor as an alienated suburban gorehound who finds that a new, gruesome interactive video game is a little too realistic.
Living in the Past, Fearing the Future Steve Dollar 2011
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The mop-headed driver, who could have passed for the fifth Beatle, zooms at high speed along the ring road, only shifting gears to slow the van down when we get to the busy streets of Haidian District.
Chapter excerpt: "Going Undergound" philip j cunningham 2009
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So it is not boring when director Barbara Kopple summons up a familiar cast of characters, some in archival film only, to recycle the familiar story — about how mop-headed organizer Michael Lang met pot-friendly Capitol Records executive Artie Kornfeld, and the two then found a Wall Street Journal ad placed by John Roberts and Joel Rosenman soliciting investment proposals.
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The mop-headed driver, who could have passed for the fifth Beatle, zooms at high speed along the ring road, only shifting gears to slow the van down when we get to the busy streets of Haidian District.
Archive 2009-04-10 philip j cunningham 2009
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Some mop-headed yahoo in a costume isn't going to do the role justice.
Farce tuckandsophi 2005
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These forty black, naked, mop-headed savages seemed intoxicated with joy and excitement.
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The “mop-headed savages” were actually Papuans who had colonized Aru from the coast of New Guinea, a hundred miles away; savage or not, they added something to the aura.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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He added: These islands are quite out of the track of all European trade, and are inhabited only by black mop-headed savages, who yet contribute to the luxurious tastes of the most civilized races.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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These islands are quite out of the track of all European trade, and are inhabited only by black mop-headed savages, who yet contribute to the luxurious tastes of the most civilized races.
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