What does mop mean?

Definitions for mop
mɒpmop

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. swab, swob, mopverb

    cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors

  2. wipe up, mop up, mopverb

    to wash or wipe with or as if with a mop

    "Mop the hallway now"; "He mopped her forehead with a towel"

  3. pout, mop, mowverb

    make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip

    "mop and mow"; "The girl pouted"

Wiktionary

  1. mopnoun

    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.

  2. mopnoun

    A dense head of hair.

    He ran a comb through his mop and hurried out the door.

  3. mopnoun

    A fair where servants are hired.

  4. mopnoun

    The young of any animal; also, a young girl; a moppet.

  5. mopnoun

    A made-up face; a grimace.

    What mops and mowes it makes! --Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher

  6. mopverb

    To rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Mopnoun

    Etymology: moppa, Welsh; mappa, Latin.

    Such is that sprinkling which some careless quean
    Flirts on you from her mop, but not so clean.
    You fly, invoke the gods; then turning, stop
    To rail; she singing still whirls on her mop. Jonathan Swift.

    Each one, tripping on his toe,
    Will be here with mop and mow. William Shakespeare, Tempest.

  2. To Mopverb

    To rub with a mop.

    Etymology: from the noun.

  3. To Mopverb

    To make wry mouths in contempt.

    Etymology: from mock.

    Five fiends have been in poor Tom at once; of lust, as Obidicut; Hobbididen, prince of dumbness; Mahu, of stealing; Mohu, of murder; and Flibbertigibbet, of mopping and mowing, who since possesses chamber-maids. William Shakespeare.

    An ass fell a mopping and braying at a lion. Roger L'Estrange.

Wikipedia

  1. Mop

    A mop (such as a floor mop) is a mass or bundle of coarse strings or yarn, etc., or a piece of cloth, sponge or other absorbent material, attached to a pole or stick. It is used to soak up liquid, for cleaning floors and other surfaces, to mop up dust, or for other cleaning purposes.

ChatGPT

  1. mop

    A mop is a cleaning tool consisting of absorbent material attached to a long handle, used for wiping or scrubbing floors or other surfaces. The absorbent material is typically made of cotton, synthetic fibers or sponge, designed to absorb or draw in water or other liquid for cleaning purposes.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Mopnoun

    a made-up face; a grimace

  2. Mopverb

    to make a wry mouth

  3. Mopnoun

    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

  4. Mopnoun

    a fair where servants are hired

  5. Mopnoun

    the young of any animal; also, a young girl; a moppet

  6. Mopverb

    to rub or wipe with a mop, or as with a mop; as, to mop a floor; to mop one's face with a handkerchief

  7. Etymology: [See Mope.]

Wikidata

  1. Mop

    A mop is a mass or bundle of coarse strings or yarn, etc., or a piece of cloth, sponge, or other absorbent material, attached to a pole or stick. It is used to soak up liquid, for cleaning floors and other surfaces, or to mop up dust, or for other cleaning purposes. The word is attested in English as early as 1496, but new refinements and variations of mop designs have been introduced, from time to time. For example, American inventor Jacob Howe received U.S. patent #241 for a mop holder in 1837 and African American inventor Thomas W. Stewart in 1893.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Mop

    mop, n. a bunch of rags, &c., fixed, on a handle for washing floors, windows, or the like: anything at all like a mop: (prov.) a hiring-fair.—v.t. to rub or wipe with a mop:—pr.p. mop′ping; pa.t. and pa.p. mopped.—adj. Mop′-head′ed, having a shaggy, unkempt head of hair. [O. Fr. mappe—L. mappa, a napkin.]

  2. Mop

    mop, n. a grimace.—v.i. to make such.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. mop

    A young whiting.

Editors Contribution

  1. mop

    A tool for cleaning.

    He bought a new MOP to clean the floors with and enjoyed using his new MOP to clean.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 13, 2015  

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  1. PMO

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  3. POM

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of mop in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of mop in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of mop in a Sentence

  1. Success Next time someone:

    Procter Gamble came to us in 1995 with their idea of an improved mop. I looked at it and said this isn't a mop at all. It was so different.

  2. Lindsey Graham:

    Hillary Clinton will mop the floor with these guys if the response of our two leading candidates for president is that after 9/11 they would not have gone into Afghanistan to take the Taliban down.

  3. Chief Executive Stefan Borgas:

    We are trying to accelerate this switch because polysulphate is so much more profitable than MOP (common muriate of potash).

  4. Ronald Mc Donald:

    Grab a bucket and mop, scrub the bottom and top, there's nothing so clean, as my burger machine, You deserve a break today so get up and get away at McDonalds!

  5. Cal Fire Captain Lucas Spelman:

    Cal Fire is not progressing any longer, which is good, we are in the stage of being able to go in there and mop up.

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