Pronunciations (4)
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/mɒp/
Pronunciation notes
- Received-Pronunciation
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/mɑp/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
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mɒp
Pronunciation notes
- GB
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mɑp
Pronunciation notes
- US
Noun
An implement for washing floors or similar, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
A wash with a mop; the act of mopping.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
- Examples
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He gave the floor a quick mop to soak up the spilt juice.
A dense head of hair.
Usage- Countable
- Humorous
- Uncountable
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He ran a comb through his mop and hurried out the door.
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The hair is very peculiar, being harsh, dry, and frizzly, growing in little tufts or curls, which in youth are very short and compact, but afterwards grow out to a considerable length, forming the compact frizzled mop which is the Papuans' pride and glory.
An annual fair where servants were historically hired.
Usage- UK usage
- West-Midlands
- Countable
- dialectal
- Uncountable
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I means to goo to th' mop, 'er sez, fur I waants a chahinge.[…]'T wuz to w:Muckley mop 'er went.
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The Mop Fairs attracted the attention of moralists. The hiring system was seen as a means to acquire girls for prostitution; although there is no evidence that this occurred in Stratford, where girls plying for hire were generally accompanied by their formidable mothers.
Mop Fairs: Today's annual events are the modern version of the old hiring fairs, where people attended seeking employment or to change it. They are named after the practice of hopefully skilled employees carrying tassels, known as mops, in their buttonholes indicating their occupation. Those who had no trade carried a mop head. At the end of the following week, they could change employers or employees, at what was called the Runaway Mop.
A tassel worn in a buttonhole to indicate ones occupation in such a fair.
Usage- UK usage
- Countable
- Obsolete
- Uncountable
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Mop Fairs: Today's annual events are the modern version of the old hiring fairs, where people attended seeking employment or to change it. They are named after the practice of hopefully skilled employees carrying tassels, known as mops, in their buttonholes indicating their occupation. Those who had no trade carried a mop head. At the end of the following week, they could change employers or employees, at what was called the Runaway Mop.
A firearm particularly if it has a large magazine (compare broom, but still can be related to MP)
Usage- Multicultural-London-English
- Countable
- Slang
- Uncountable
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Mainstream in this ting but I'm fully on opps Got shot with a mop but that boy never dropped
Fellatio.
Usage- Slang
- Uncountable
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Had his thot give me mop in the back of my Bimmer
A squeezable high-flow paint marker with an extra-wide felt or foam tip.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
A row of ropes dragged along the seabed for catching starfish.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
A drunkard.
Usage- Countable
- Slang
- Uncountable
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Left his pa's farm and is now working at the city water works. Some say he's got to drink 'cause he works with blue vitriol and that kind of stuff. He was a drunken mop always.
Verb
To rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop.
Usage- Transitive
- Examples
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to mop (or scrub) a floor
to mop one's face with a handkerchief
To shoplift.
Usage- US usage
- Slang
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By “mopping” (stealing) the clothes and accessories necessary to effect their look, or by buying breasts, reconstructed noses, lifted chins, and female genitals, the children turn traditional ideas of labor around: […]
Noun
The young of any animal.
Usage- UK usage
- dialectal
- Obsolete
A young girl; a moppet.
Usage- UK usage
- dialectal
- Obsolete
A made-up face; a grimace.
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What mops and mowes it makes! --
Before you can say 'Come' and 'Go,' And breathe twice; and cry 'so, so,' Each one, tripping on his toe, Will be here with mop and mow.
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It looked much prettier than before, but still maintained the elfish cast of the eye, like his father, whilst two or three children more had undergone a strange metamorphosis. For there sat on either side the bed's head, a couple of little flat-nosed imps, who with "mops and mows," and with many a grimace and grin, were busied to no end in scratching their own polls, or in pulling the fairy lady's ears with their long and hairy paws.
Verb
To make a wry expression with the mouth.
Usage- Intransitive
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Flibbertigibbet, [is scared of] moping and mowing, who since possesses chambermaids and waiting-women
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There were women and children as well as men in the place, and all, ragged and half naked, mopped and mowed at the passers, or, leaping to their feet, defied them with unspeakable words and gestures.
Noun
cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors
- Broader terms
Verb
to wash or wipe with or as if with a mop
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Mop the hallway now
He mopped her forehead with a towel
make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip
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mop and mow
The girl pouted