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noun

Mop n. A made-up face; a grimace. "What mops and mowes it makes!"

Mop n.

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.

A fair where servants are hired. (Prov. Eng.)

The young of any animal; also, a young girl; a moppet. (Prov. Eng.)

Mop head.

(a)

The end of a mop, to which the thrums or rags are fastened.

(b)

A clamp for holding the thrums or rags of a mop. (U.S.)

verb

Mop v. t. (past & past part. mopped; pres. part. mopping) 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.

Mop v. i. To make a wry mouth. (Obs.)

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"Mop" Quotes from Famous Books

... "and he told me that the Lodorians usually make heavy levies on worlds which they discover and dominate. As soon as Teuxical returns to Lodore and announces a new discovery a fleet of those damned monsters is sent out to mop up the new planet. That Malfero, who is the emperor of Lodore, is considerable of a monarch, and it seems that he has a passion for piling up wealth. Gold and platinum are as precious on Lodore as they are here and he also ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 • Various

... forward to receive our distinguished guest, who climbed heavily on his Secretary's arm. Arriving thus at the sally-way, he nodded graciously in answer to the first lieutenant's salute, pulled out a handkerchief to mop his brow, and in the act of mopping it cast a ...

— Merry-Garden and Other Stories • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... cleans this place came in this morning with her mop and pail, and Carlotta commenced chattering with her at once, and the woman laughed, so that I asked her what she was saying. She told me that Carlotta said she looked like her mother, and that ...

— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 • Various

... pale, wavy, and had a way of rising on either side of his brow, as if always being flung back; Carton's was a kind of dark unfathomed mop. They had not met a soul ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... off. Vell, den a long dime passes avay, und den you see Rudolph's farm. He has got a nice vife, und a putiful leetle child. Putty soon Leah comes in, being shased, as ushual, by fellers mit shticks. She looks like she didn't ead someding for two monds. Rudolph's vife sends off dot mop, und Leah gits avay again. Den dat nice leedle child comes oud, und Leah comes back; und ven she sees dot child, don'd she feel orful aboud dot, und she says mit affectfulness, "Come here, leedle child, I voodn'd harm you;" und dot nice leedle ...

— Standard Selections • Various

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