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Mop

//mɒp// noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    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. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    The young of any animal. British, dialectal, obsolete
  3. 3
    GBU-57; Acronym of Massive Ordnance Penetrator. US

    "The MOP — a 30,000-pound bomb with 6,000 pounds of explosives — was designed for “reaching and destroying our adversaries’ weapons of mass destruction located in well-protected facilities,” according to a fact sheet from the US Air Force."

  4. 4
    Alternative letter-case form of MOP (“means of production”). Marxism, alt-of
  5. 5
    cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors wordnet
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  1. 6
    A wash with a mop; the act of mopping. countable, uncountable

    "He gave the floor a quick mop to soak up the spilt juice."

  2. 7
    A young girl; a moppet. British, dialectal, obsolete
  3. 8
    Initialism of means of production. Marxism, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  4. 9
    Alternative letter-case form of MOP (“mode of production”). Marxism, alt-of
  5. 10
    A dense head of hair. countable, humorous, uncountable

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

  6. 11
    A made-up face; a grimace.

    "What mops and mowes it makes! --"

  7. 12
    Initialism of mode of production. Marxism, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  8. 13
    An annual fair where servants were historically hired. British, West-Midlands, countable, dialectal, uncountable

    "I means to goo to th' mop, 'er sez, fur I waants a chahinge.[…]'T wuz to w:Muckley mop 'er went."

  9. 14
    Initialism of method of payment. Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

    "Item: TWICELAND Fantasy Park Photobook (Sealed) / Price: 800 pesos only / DOP: PAYO / MOD: SCO or GGX / MOP: BPI or Gcash"

  10. 15
    A tassel worn in a buttonhole to indicate ones occupation in such a fair. British, countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "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."

  11. 16
    Initialism of muriate of potash. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, obsolete
  12. 17
    A firearm particularly if it has a large magazine (compare broom, but still can be related to MP) Multicultural-London-English, countable, slang, uncountable

    "Mainstream in this ting but I'm fully on opps Got shot with a mop but that boy never dropped"

  13. 18
    Fellatio. slang, uncountable

    "Had his thot give me mop in the back of my Bimmer"

  14. 19
    A squeezable high-flow paint marker with an extra-wide felt or foam tip. countable, uncountable
  15. 20
    A row of ropes dragged along the seabed for catching starfish. countable, uncountable
  16. 21
    A drunkard. countable, slang, uncountable

    "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
  1. 1
    To rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop. transitive

    "to mop (or scrub) a floor"

  2. 2
    To make a wry expression with the mouth. intransitive

    "Flibbertigibbet,[is scared of]moping and mowing, who since possesses chambermaids and waiting-women"

  3. 3
    make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip wordnet
  4. 4
    To shoplift. US, slang

    "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: […]"

  5. 5
    to wash or wipe with or as if with a mop wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English mappe (also as mappel), perhaps borrowed from Walloon mappe (“napkin”), from Latin mappa (“napkin, cloth”). Believed to be from a Semitic source, variously claimed as Phoenician or Punic (the latter by Quintilian). Compare Modern Hebrew מַפָּה (mapá, “a map; a cloth”) (shortened from מַנְפָּה (manpah, “fluttering banner, streaming cloth”)). Doublet of map, nape, and nappe.

Etymology 2

From Middle English mappe (also as mappel), perhaps borrowed from Walloon mappe (“napkin”), from Latin mappa (“napkin, cloth”). Believed to be from a Semitic source, variously claimed as Phoenician or Punic (the latter by Quintilian). Compare Modern Hebrew מַפָּה (mapá, “a map; a cloth”) (shortened from מַנְפָּה (manpah, “fluttering banner, streaming cloth”)). Doublet of map, nape, and nappe.

Etymology 3

From Middle English moppe (“fool, simpleton; derisive gesture; child, baby, doll”), of obscure origin, but compare Proto-West Germanic *mauwu (“pout, protruding lip”). Compare Low German mop, mops (“simpleton; pugnosed dog”), Dutch mop, mops (“pugnosed dog”), and the verb mope.

Etymology 4

From Middle English moppe (“fool, simpleton; derisive gesture; child, baby, doll”), of obscure origin, but compare Proto-West Germanic *mauwu (“pout, protruding lip”). Compare Low German mop, mops (“simpleton; pugnosed dog”), Dutch mop, mops (“pugnosed dog”), and the verb mope.

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