mop

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.

2. 2

   A wash with a mop; the act of mopping.

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

3. 3

   A dense head of hair.

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

   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.

4. 4

   An annual fair where servants were historically hired.

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

   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.

5. 5

   obsoleteA tassel worn in a buttonhole to indicate ones occupation in such a fair.

6. 6

   slangA firearm particularly if it has a large magazine (compare broom, but still can be related to MP)

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

7. 7

   slangFellatio.

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

8. 8

   A squeezable high-flow paint marker with an extra-wide felt or foam tip.

9. 9

   A row of ropes dragged along the seabed for catching starfish.

10. 10

    slangA drunkard.

    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.

   to mop (or scrub) a floor

   to mop one's face with a handkerchief

2. 2

   slangTo shoplift.

   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

1. 1

   obsoleteThe young of any animal.

2. 2

   obsoleteA young girl; a moppet.

3. 3

   A made-up face; a grimace.

   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.

verb

1. 1

   To make a wry expression with the mouth.

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

   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.

Forms

plural

mops

past tense

mopped

past participle

mopped

present participle

mopping

third person singular

mops