Complete Definition of "mop"

English

Pronunciation
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:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-�p|-�p

Noun
en-noun
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  1. 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. A fair where servants are hired. [Prov. Eng.]
  3. The young of any animal; also, a young girl; a moppet.

#:[Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.

  1. A made-up face; a grimace.

#:What mops and mowes it makes! --Beau. & Fl.

  1. jocular A head of hair.

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

Translations
trans-top|implement for washing floors
Finnish: moppi
French: balai m à laver
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Spanish: chascona f italbrac|Chile, fregona f italbrac|Spain, lampazo m italbrac|Argentina|Nicaragua|Northwestern Venezuela|Uruguay, mapo m italbrac|Puerto Rico, mechudo m italbrac|Mexico, mocho m italbrac|Eastern Spain, mopa f italbrac|Venezuelan standard usage, palo de trapear m italbrac|Cuba, suape m italbrac|Dominican Republic, trapeador m italbrac|Central America|Cuba|Ecuador|Mexico|Peru, trapero m italbrac|Colombia
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trans-top|head of hair
Finnish: hiuskuontalo
French: tignasse f
trans-mid
Italian: zazzera f
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Derived terms
mophead
mop squeezer
mop water

Verb
en-verb|mop|p|ing

  1. transitive 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

Translations
trans-top|To rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop
Finnish: mopata
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Italian: asciugare
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Dutch

Noun
mop m (plural: moppen, diminutive: mopje, plural diminutive: mopjes)

  1. a joke, jest, hoax

Noun
mop (plural: mops)

  1. a mop (an implement for washing floors, etc.)

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