Definitions for MOP

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MOP mop

Spelling: [mop]

IPA: /mɒp/

Mop is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 16 anagrams from letters in MOP (mop).

Definitions for MOP

noun

1. a bundle of coarse yarn, a sponge, or other absorbent material, fastened at the end of a stick or handle for washing floors, dishes, etc.
2. a thick mass of hair.
3. a polishing wheel having several layers of cloth secured by a boss.
4. a wry face; grimace.

Idioms

1. mop the floor with. floor (def 20).

Verb phrases

1. mop up, Military. to clear (ground, trenches, towns, etc.) of scattered or remaining enemy combatants after attacking forces have conquered the area. Informal. to dispose of; complete; finish:

verb (used with object)

1. to rub, wipe, clean, or remove with a mop (often followed by up):
2. to wipe as if with a mop:

verb (used without object)

1. to clean or wipe with or as if with a mop (often followed by up):
2. to make a disappointed or unhappy face; grimace:

Origin of MOP

1375-1425; earlier map, late Middle English mappe, apocopated variant of mappel Medieval Latin mappula a cloth, equivalent to Latin mapp(a) napkin + -ula -ule

Examples for MOP

In person, Gondry is more Joel than Doc Brown—a fragile, soft-spoken man with a mop of curly brown hair.

mop died of old age and of a complication of diseases, in the spring of 1892.

mop had absolutely no sense of fear or of animal proportions.

Qalqilya is a religiously conservative city and Sajed with his mop top hair and baggy clothes was a misfit, but not for long.

“They believe when this is done they can mop up al Qaeda units,” he said.

One church executive was made to mop the bathroom floor with his tongue.

She then planted the comb in my mop of hair and tore out a handful of it.

mop is made up of a large, graphic vinyl, an array of found objects, and a selection of images.

You're in the middle of a puddle now, but when you get over dreaming I'd like to mop it up.

But there he was, and the society which a good man founded saw not mop that day.