mop

Plural: mops

Noun

• cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors
• 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.
• A wash with a mop; the act of mopping.
• A dense head of hair.
• An annual fair where servants were historically hired.
• A tassel worn in a buttonhole to indicate ones occupation in such a fair.
• A firearm particularly if it has a large magazine (compare broom, but still can be related to MP)
• Fellatio.
• A squeezable high-flow paint marker with an extra-wide felt or foam tip.
• A row of ropes dragged along the seabed for catching starfish.
• A drunkard.
• The young of any animal.
• A young girl; a moppet.
• A made-up face; a grimace.

Verb

Verb Forms: mopped, mopping, mops

• To clean or wipe with an absorbent device.
• to wash or wipe with or as if with a mop
  • "Mop the hallway now"
  • "He mopped her forehead with a towel"
• make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip
  • "mop and mow"
• To rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop.
• To shoplift.
• To make a wry expression with the mouth.

Examples

• After a particularly messy Scrabble game, I had to mop up the spilled strategy.
• He gave the floor a quick mop to soak up the spilt juice.
• He ran a comb through his mop and hurried out the door.
• to mop (or scrub) a floor
• to mop one's face with a handkerchief

Synonyms

mop up, mow, pout, swab, swob, wipe up, firearm, gat, gun, iron, piece

Anagrams of mop